Constituency Dates
Maldon 16011Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament.
Midhurst 1604
Essex 16142Ibid.
Arundel 22 Nov. 1621
Bossiney 1624
Callington 1625
Bodmin 1626
Family and Education
bap. 1 May 1577, o.s. of Jerome Weston of Roxwell by his 1st w. Mary, da. of Anthony Cave of Chicheley, Bucks. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. BA 1594; M. Temple 1594; travelled abroad. m. (1) Elizabeth (d.1603), da. of William Pinchon of Writtle, Essex, 1s. 2da.; (2) c.1604, Frances (d.1645), da. of Nicholas Walgrave of Borley, Essex, 4s. inc. Jerome Weston 1da. Kntd. 1603; suc. fa. 1603; KG 1630; cr. Baron Weston 1628, Earl of Portland 1633.
Offices Held

Collector of petty customs in the port of London 1616; jt. comptroller of the navy 1619; PC 1621; ambassador to Brussels 1622; chancellor and under-treasurer of the Exchequer 1621 – 28, acting treasurer May-Dec. 1624; commr. Virginia 1624; ld. treasurer 1628; jt. ld. lt. of Essex 1629, Hants 1631 – 33; 1st commr. of Admiralty 1628, 1632; high steward, Exeter 1630; v.-adm. Hants 1631; capt. I.o.W. 1631 – 33; bencher, M. Temple by 1633.

Address
Main residences: Roxwell Park, Essex; Nayland, Suff.
biography text

Weston was born at Chicheley, his mother’s house, of a distinguished Catholic family, whose pedigree has been somewhat obscured by an elaborate seventeenth-century fabrication. Through his local family influence he was returned for Maldon in 1601. He became, under the Stuarts, a national figure concerned with problems of diplomacy and finance. Clarendon described him as a ‘man of big looks and of a mean and abject spirit’. He received the last rites from a Catholic priest, died on 13 Mar. 1635 and was buried in Winchester cathedral.3CP; DNB; Morant, Essex, ii. 71; Vis. Essex(Harl. Soc. xiii), 125, 318; C142/286/167.

Author
W.J.J.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Notes
  • 1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament.
  • 2. Ibid.
  • 3. CP; DNB; Morant, Essex, ii. 71; Vis. Essex(Harl. Soc. xiii), 125, 318; C142/286/167.