BACKHOUSE (BACCHUS, BACKHURST), John (1584-1649), of Sindlesham and Swallowfield , Berks. and Kingsley, Hants.

Family and Education

b. 29 June 1584, 1st s. of Samuel Backhouse* and Elizabeth, da. of John Borlase† of Little Marlow, Bucks. m. lic. 11 July 1615 (with £4,000), Flower (d. 12 Aug. 1652), da. of Thomas Henshawe, silkman, of Milk Street, London. cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626; suc. fa. 1626.Ashmole, Berks. ii. 377; Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi), 160; C.C.E. Russell, Swallowfield, 110-20; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 60; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 616; Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 163. d. 9 Oct. 1649.Russell, 116-17.">[Footnote] sig. John Backhouse.

Offices Held

Member, New River Co. 1619, E.I. Co. 1629.B. Rudden, The New River, 30; CSP Col. E.I. 1625–9, p. 697.

Commr. Forced Loan, Berks. 1626;T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144. j.p. Berks. 1632 – 42, Wilts. 1641–2;C231/5, pp. 85, 444, 527, 529. commr. assessment, Berks. 1641, subsidy 1641,SR, v. 82, 149. bounds of Windsor Forest 1642.Russell, 112.

Parlimentarian

BACKHOUSE (BACCHUS, BACKHURST), John (1584-1649), of Sindlesham and Swallowfield , Berks. and Kingsley, Hants.

Main residences: Sindlesham; Swallowfield, Berks.; Kingsley, Hants.

Bacchus, Backhurst

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BACKHOUSE (BACCHUS, BACKHURST), John (1584-1649)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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