NORWOOD, Henry (c.1614-89), of Leckhampton, Glos.

Family and Education

b. c. 1614, 2nd s. of Henry Norwood (d.1616), barrister, of the Middle Temple and West Camel, Som. by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Rodney of Rodney Stoke, Som. educ. I. Temple 1637, called 1660. unm.

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. (royalist) 1643, maj. by 1654; capt. of Sandown Castle 1661 – 63; lt.-col. Lord Rutherford’s. Ft. 1661 – 64; dep. gov. Dunkirk Mar. – Nov. 1662; col. of ft. 2 Tangier Regt. 1664 – 69; lt.-gov. Tangier 1666–9.Jnl. Soc. Army Hist. Research, iv. 192; Thurloe, iii. 96.

Esquire of the body Mar. 1660 – ?85; treasurer, Virginia 1661 – 73; warden of the Fleet prison c. 1670 – 76, 1679; commr. for Tangier 1673 – 80; member, R. Fishery Co. 1677.Williamson Letters (Cam. Soc. n.s. viii), 149.

Commr. for loyal and indigent officers, Kent 1662; j.p. Glos. 1670 – Feb. 1688, Oct. 1688 – d.; freeman and common councilman, Gloucester 1671, alderman 1672 – d., mayor 1672 – 73; commr. for assessment, Glos. and Gloucester 1673 – 80, 1689 inquiry, Forest of Dean 1679; dep. lt. Glos. 1683 – Feb. 1688, Oct. 1688–d.Cal. Treas. Bks. vi. 196.

Parlimentarian

NORWOOD, Henry (c.1614-89), of Leckhampton, Glos.

Main residence: Leckhampton, Glos.

Notes

Unless otherwise stated this biography is based on J. H. Trye, ‘Col. Henry Norwood of Leekhampton, Glos.’, Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. xlvii. 113-21; F. Harrison, ‘Henry Norwood, Treasurer of Virginia’, Virginia Mag. of Hist. and Biog. xxxiii. 1-10; P. Hardacre, ‘Further Adventures of Henry Norwood’ (ibid.), lxvii. 271-83; and on Norwood’s own account, A Voyage to Virginia (P. Force, Tracts, iii. no. 10).

Author

B.D.H.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

NORWOOD, Henry (c.1614-89)

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Oxford 1644

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