Family and Education
b. c. 1621, 3rd s. of John Bodurda of Bodwrda, Aberdaron, Caern. by Margaret, da. of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch, Lleyn, Caern. educ. Shrewsbury 1638; St. John’s, Camb. matric. 27 Oct. 1639, aged 18; L. Inn 1649. m. (1) 1648, Mary, da. of Arthur Squibb, Clarenceux King of Arms, of Henley Park, Ash, Surr., 1s.; (2) lic. 23 July 1664, Katherine, da. of John Sisney of Thorpe, Rutland, wid. of Richard Shaxton, merchant and Fishmonger, of Silver Street, London, s.p.J. E. Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 168; J. E. Auden, Shrewsbury Sch. Reg. 11; Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. lxviii. 62; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 147; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), vii. 66; C9/426/141.
Offices Held
Clerk, wine licences 1646 – 53; keeper of records, common pleas 1656 – June 1660; commr. for wine duties 1668 – 70; dep. commr. of Treasury [I] 1671–d.
Commr. for assessment, Caern. 1647, Anglesey, Caern. and London 1657, Anglesey and Caern. Jan. 1660, Westminster and Anglesey Aug. 1660–1, Caern. Sept. 1660–1, 1663 – d., Mdx. 1664 – 69, militia, Caern. 1648, Westminster and North Wales Mar. 1660; j.p. Caern. Mar. 1660 – d.; conservator, Bedford level 1665–6.
Main residences: Westminster; Islington, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
BODURDA, Griffith (c.1621-77)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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