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Family and Education
b. c. 1600, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Wyndham of Kentsford by Elizabeth, da. of Richard Coningsby; bro. of Francis Wyndham. educ. Wadham, Oxf. matric. 16 Apr. 1619, aged 18; L. Inn 1620. m. (1) 19 Aug. 1623, Christabella (d.1658), da. of Hugh Pyne of Cathanger, Som. and coh. to her bro. Arthur Pyne, 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 4da.; (2) lic. 23 Nov. 1669, Elizabeth, wid. of Francis Savage, s.p. suc. fa. 1635; Kntd. c. Aug. 1667.SP29/69/86; C142/568/120; C5/197/80; H. A. Wyndham, Fam. Hist. i. 177-8, 278-9; CSP Dom. 1657-8, p. 377; Cal. Treas. Bks. ii. 34, 119.
Offices Held

Searcher of soap 1632 – 37; clerk of errors, K.b. 1633 – 41, ?1661 – d.; gent. of privy chamber by 1635 – 46, June 1660–67; commr. for wine licences 1662–?8; kt. marshal 1667 – d.; commr. for accounts [I] 1668, accounts loyal and indigent officers 1671.CSP Dom. 1635, p. 283; 1660–1, p. 464; 1661–2, p. 377; 1671, p. 255; 1675–6, p. 455; Wyndham, 179, 230, 248; Keeler, Long Parl. 396; Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 169; Eg. 2539, f. 254.

Capt. of horse 1639 – 42, col. (royalist) 1642 – 45; gov. of Bridgwater 1643–5.HMC 10th Rep. VI , 91; R. Hopton, Bellum Civile (Som. Rec. Soc. xviii), 48; Wyndham, 205; Collinson, Som. iii. 492.

Commr. of array, Som. 1642, sheriff 1642 – 43; j.p. Som. 1643 – 46, July 1660 – d., Mdx., Westminster and Surr. 1667-d., dep. lt. Som. July 1660 – d., commr. for sewers Dec. 1660, assessment 1661 – 80, the Household 1671, Mdx. 1673 – 79, Surr. and Westminster 1673 – 74, loyal and indigent officers, Som. 1662; sub-commr. for prizes, London 1665 – 66; commr. for recusants, Som. 1675.CJ, ii. 745, C181/7/26; HMC 6th Rep. 338; Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 842.

Parlimentarian
WYNDHAM, Edmund (1601-1682), of Kentsford and Cathanger, Som.; later of St. Margaret’s, Westminster
Main residences: Kentsford, St. Decuman's, Som.; Pall Mall, Westminster.
Author
I.C.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title

WYNDHAM, Edmund (c.1600-81)

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Oxford 1644
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Religion