MATTHEW, Tobie (1577-1665), of Durham House, The Strand, Westminster

Family and Education

b. 3 Oct. 1577,A.H. Mathew and A. Calthrop, The Life of Sir Tobie Matthew: Bacon’s Alter Ego, 3. 1st s. of Tobie Matthew, abp. of York 1606-28, and Frances, da. of William Barlow, bp. of Chichester 1559-68, wid. of Matthew Parker of Bexley, Kent.Ibid. 365. educ. Eton 1588-9;Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry, 227. Christ Church, Oxf. 1590, BA 1594, MA 1597;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France) 1598;CSP Dom. 1598-1601, p. 54. G. Inn 1599.GI Admiss. unm. Ordained 1614;Mathew and Calthrop, 70, 123. Kntd. 10 Oct. 1623;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 183. suc. fa. 1628.Mathew and Calthrop, 283. d. 13 Oct. 1655.Ibid. 123, 365.

Offices Held

Freeman, St. Albans, Herts. 1604.A.E. Gibbs, Corp. Recs. St. Albans, 56.

Member, Fishery Soc. 1633, Westminster Soap Co. 1636.SP16/231/15, 16; J.P. Feil, ‘Sir Tobie Matthew and his Collection of Letters’ (Chicago Ph.D. thesis, 1962), p. 209.

Servant to Queen Henrietta Maria 1640.Feil, 245.

Parlimentarian

MATTHEW, Tobie (1577-1665), of Durham House, The Strand, Westminster

Main residence: Durham House, The Strand, Westminster.

Author

A.D.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MATTHEW, Tobie (1577-1665)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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