COVENTRY, Hon. William (1627-86), of Whitehall and Bampton, Oxon.

Family and Education

bap. 4 Oct. 1627, 5th s. of Sir Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, being 4th s. by 2nd w.; bro. of Henry Coventry and John Coventry and half-bro. of Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron Coventry. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1642; travelled abroad (France) by 1649-52. unm. Kntd. 26 June 1665.Lysons, Environs, iii. 155; Evelyn Diary, ii. 564.

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. (royalist) c.1645.Clarendon, Life, ii. 201.

Sec. to the Duke of York May 1660–7; commr. for trade Nov. 1660–9, plantations Dec. 1660–9, navy 1662 – 67, Tangier 1662 – 69; PC 26 June 1665 – 5 Mar. 1669; ld. of Treasury 1667–9.Peppys Diary, 22 May 1660, 27 Oct. 1662, 2 Sept. 1667, 6 Mar. 1669.

Freeman, Yarmouth 1660, Portsmouth 1661, 1666; agent, R. Adventurers into Africa Dec. 1660–3; j.p. Essex, Kent, Mdx. and Suss. 1662 – 67, Oxon., by 1669 – bef.80; asst. R. Fishing Co. 1664; commr. for assessment, Oxon. 1673 – 80, Norf. 1677 – 80, Glos. 1679–80.Yarmouth Freemen, 92; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 357, 359; Sel. Charters (Selden Soc. xxviii), 173, 183.

Parlimentarian

COVENTRY, Hon. William (1627-86), of Whitehall and Bampton, Oxon.

Main residences: Whitehall; Bampton, Oxon.

Notes

This biography is based on D. T. Witcome, ‘Parl . Careers of Sir William and Mr Henry Coventry’ (Oxf. Univ. B. Litt. thesis, 1954).

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Commons 1660-1690

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