Family and Education
b. c. 1590, 1st s. of Anthony Dyott* and 1st w. Catherine, da. of John Harcourt of Ranton Abbey, Staffs. educ. Corpus Christi, Oxf. 1604, BA 1607; I. Temple 1607, called 1615.Al. Ox.; CITR, ii. 29, 90. m. 4 Jan. 1615, Dorothy (bur. 11 Apr. 1672), da. and h. of Richard Dorington, grocer and alderman of Stafford, 6s. (2 d.v.p.). Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1884), pp. 118-19; CITR, ii. 357. suc. fa. 1622; Kntd. 13 Sept. 1635. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 203. d. 8 Mar. 1660. sig. Ric[hard] Dyot.
Offices Held

Steward, Lichfield 1622–41; T. Harwood, Hist. Lichfield, 345. recorder, Stafford by 1624–31; Wm. Salt Lib., ms 369, pp. 160–1. justice, Council in the North 1628–41; CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 8; R. Reid, Council in the North, 498. steward, reader’s dinner (jt.), I. Temple 1633; CITR, ii. 206. temporal chan., Palatinate of Dur. 1639-at least 1640; Staffs. RO, D661/1/732; Cat. of Mss in I. Temple ed. J. Conway Davies, ii. 928. master in Chancery extraordinary c.1655. Staffs. RO, D661/1/29.

Commr. subsidy, Lichfield 1624; C212/22/23. j.p. Ripon, Yorks. 1629, C181/4, f. 7v. Yorks. (W., N. and E. Ridings) 1630 – at least40, Staffs. 1634 – at least40, co. Dur. 1639-at least 1640; C231/5, ff. 35–6, 143, 336; C66/2858. commr. gaol delivery, Ripon 1629-at least 1633, C181/4, ff. 8, 135. recusancy, northern counties 1630, CSP Dom. 1629–31, pp. 301, 383. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1632, C181/4, f. 108. charitable uses, Staffs. 1634, 1637-at least 1639, C192/1, unfol. sewers 1634, swans, Staffs. and Warws. 1635, C181/4, ff. 189, 199v. array, Staffs. 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. assessment (roy.) 1643. J.C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Soc.), ii. 23.

Main residences: Stafford; Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs.; the Inner Temple, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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DYOTT, Richard (c.1590-1660)

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