BATTEN, Sir William (c.1601-67), of the Navy Office, Seething Lane, London and Black House, Walthamstow, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c. 1601, 2nd s. of Andrew Batten, mariner, of Easton in Gordano, Som. m. (1) lic. 23 Sept. 1625, aged 24, Margaret, da. of William Browne, Cordwainer, of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da.; (2) 3 Feb. 1659, Elizabeth, da. of one Turner, wid. of William Woodstocke of Westminster, s.p. Kntd. c. July 1648.PCC 77 Evelyn, 144 Carr; Guildhall Lib. mss 10091/10; C5/442/67; C8/202/10.

Offices Held

Freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1623; freeman, Portsmouth 1638, Aug. 1660; j.p. Hants, Kent and Mdx. 1638 – 48, Kent July 1660 – d., Essex, Hants and Mdx. Aug. 1660 – d.; commr. for assessment, Kent 1661 – 63, Essex 1663 – d., piracy, London 1662.Information from Col. G. F. H. Archer, clerk to the Merchant Taylors’ Co.; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 352, 356; HMC 8th Rep. pt. 1 (1881), 248.

Capt. RN by 1638; v.-adm. (parliamentary) 1642 – 47; r.-adm. (royalist) July-Nov. 1648.

Surveyor of the navy 1638 – 48, June 1660 – d.; elder bro. Trinity House June 1660 – d., dep. master June 1660–1, master June 1663–4.

Parlimentarian

BATTEN, Sir William (c.1601-67), of the Navy Office, Seething Lane, London and Black House, Walthamstow, Essex.

Main residences: the Navy Office, Seething Lane, London; Black House, Walthamstow, Essex.

Author

B.D.H.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

BATTEN, Sir William (c.1601-67)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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