Family and Education
b. c. 1605, s. of Robert Richbell, yeoman, of Overton, Hants. m. (1) by 1642, Frances (bur. 19 Nov. 1658), da. and coh. of Edward Exton, merchant, of Southampton, 9s. (5 d.v.p.) 4da.; (2) Lettice (bur. 21 Oct. 1661), 1da.J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London, 138; PCC 80 Bruce, 36 Ent; St. Dionis Backchurch (Harl. Soc. Reg. iii) 116, 233; information from Miss S. D. Thomson, Southampton City Archivist.
Offices Held
Member, Skinners’ Co. 1638; commr. for assessment, Hants 1652, 1657, Jan. 1660–3, Southampton 1663 – 69, Hants and Southampton 1673 – 80; freeman, Southampton 1658, Portsmouth 1677; commr. for militia, Hants Mar. 1660; alderman, London Jan. – Feb. 1661; commr. for corporations, Hants 1662 – 63; mayor, Southampton 1662 – 63, 1670–1.
Commr. for trade Nov. 1660–8.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: High Street, Southampton; St. Dionis Backchurch, London.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
RICHBELL, Robert (c.1605-88)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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