WYNDHAM, Francis (c.1610-76), of Trent, Som. and Pall Mall, Westminster.

Family and Education

b. c. 1610, 5th surv. s. of Sir Thomas Wyndham of Kentsford, Som. and bro. of Edmund Wyndham educ. Padua 1635. m. 1646, Anne, da. and coh. of Thomas Gerard of Trent, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. suc. uncle Sir Hugh Wyndham, 1st Bt., of Pilsdon, in Dorset estate 1663; cr. Bt. 18 Nov. 1673.Som. and Dorset N. and Q. v. 268; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 733; PCC 101 Juxon.

Offices Held

Col. (royalist) 1643 – 46; gov. Dunster Castle 1643 – 46; maj. R. Horse Gds. (The Blues) 1661 – d.

J.p. Som. 1643 – 46, July 1660 – d.; commr. for assessment Som. Aug. 1660 – d., Dorset 1663 – 64, sewers, Som. Dec. 1660, loyal and indigent officers 1662; dep. lt. Som. 1666 – d., Dorset 1672 – 74; commr. for recusants, Som. 1675.P. Young, Edgehill, 214; H. A. Wyndham, Fam. Hist. i. 196, 209; R. Hopton, Bellum Civile (Som. Rec. Soc. xviii), 47–48; Q. Sess. Recs. (Som. Rec. Soc. xxviii), p. xx; (xxxiv), p. xx; C181/7/26; HMC Fleming, 56; Som. RO, DD/Pot 162.

Parlimentarian

WYNDHAM, Francis (c.1610-76), of Trent, Som. and Pall Mall, Westminster.

Main residences: Trent, Som.; Pall Mall, Westminster.

Author

M.W.H.

I.C.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion