Family and Education
b. c. 1613, 1st s. of Richard Braham of Wandsworth, Surr. by Elizabeth, da. of Nathaniel Giles, Mus. Doc., of New Windsor. educ. G. Inn 1634. m. (1) by 1639, Susan (d. 5 May 1640), da. of Sir George Southcote of Shillingford, Devon, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) Susan, da. of Sir Robert Gawsell of Watlington, Norf., s.p.; (3) lic. 6 May 1663, aged 50, Jane (d.1667), da. of Thomas Devenish of Langham, Dorset, wid. of Henry Scobell, clerk of Parliament, of Westminster, s.p. suc. fa. 1619; Kntd. 21 Mar. 1645; cr. Bt. 16 Apr. 1662.1 Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 178-9; Ashmole, Berks. iii. 61-3; London, Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 172.
Offices Held
J.p. Berks. July 1660 – d., Windsor 1665; commr. for assessment, Berks. Aug. 1660–74, corporations 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers 1662, oyer and terminer, Oxford circuit 1665, encroachments, Windsor 1671, recusants, Berks. 1675.
Commr. for wine licences 1661–4.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Gray's Inn; Shaw-in-the-Frith, New Windsor, Berks.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
BRAHAM, Sir Richard (c.1613-76)
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Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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