KILLIGREW, Sir William (1606-95), of Westminster.

Family and Education

bap. 28 May 1606, 1st s. of Sir Robert Killigrew of Kempton Park, Sunbury, Mdx. by Mary, da. of Sir Henry Woodhouse of Hickling, Norf. educ. St. John’s Oxf. 1623, travelled abroad c.1626-8. m. c.1625, Mary, da. of John Hill of Honiley, Warws., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. Kntd. 12 May 1626; suc. fa. 1633.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 270; Wood, Athenae, iv. 691; Add. 21423, f. 193.

Offices Held

Col. W. Cornw. militia ?1628 – 35; commr. for recusants, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1675.Wood, iv. 691.

Gov. Pendennis Castle 1633 – 35; capt. of horse gds. (royalist) 1642.CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 31; 1635, p. 72; Clarendon, Rebellion, ii. 348; Merc. Aul. 14 July 1643.

Gent. usher of the privy chamber by 1640 – 46, May 1660–2; v.-chamberlain to Queen Catherine of Braganza 1662–85.Wood, iv. 691; Cal. Treas. Bks. i. 583.

Parlimentarian

KILLIGREW, Sir William II (1606-1695), of Pendennis Castle, Cornw.; later of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London and Kempton Park, Mdx.

Main residence: Westminster.

Author

P.A.B.

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

KILLIGREW, Sir William (1606-95)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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