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Family and Education
b. c. 1545, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Francis Knollys and bro. of Edward, Francis, Richard, Robert and Henry Knollys II. educ. Eton 1560; Magdalen Coll. Oxf.; M. Temple 1565. m. (1) aft. Mar. 1573. Dorothy (d.1605), da. of Edmund, 1st Baron Bray of Eaton Bray, Beds., wid. of (Sir) Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos of Sudeley, s.p.; (2) 1605, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, 2s. 1da. Kntd. 1586; suc. fa. July 1596. KG 1615; cr. Baron Knollys 1603, Visct. Wallingford 1616, Earl of Banbury 1626.
Offices Held

Capt. in army in the north 1569; gent. pens. 1570 – 96; emissary in Scotland 1585; keeper of the Marshalsea by 1586; capt. in Netherlands and gov. Ostend 1586 – 87; comptroller of the Household and PC 30 Aug. 1596; delegate to the estates of Holland 1599; treasurer of the Household 1602 – 16; cofferer to Prince of Wales 1606; commr. of the Treasury 1614; master of the ct. of wards 1614 – 19.

J.p. Glos. from c. 1577, q. from c. 1583, rem. c. 1581; j.p. Wilts. from c. 1582, q. from c. 1583, rem. c. 1587; j.p.q. Oxon. from c. 1583, dep. lt. 1587, custos rot. c. 1594; j.p.q. Berks. from c. 1593, dep. lt. 1593; jt. (with Sir Henry Norris I) ld. lt. Berks. and Oxon 1596, sole 1601.

High steward, Reading 1601, Abingdon ?1601 – 30, Banbury 1608, Oxford 1611, Wallingford prob. by 1607; constable Wallingford castle and steward of honour of Ewelme and keeper of park 1604.DNB; CP; Salisbury State Pprs. ed. Murdin, 770; E407/1/6; HMC Rutland, i. 185; Harl. 2143, f. 45; CSP For. 1586–7, pp. 85, 111; 1589 (Jan.-July), p. 181; APC, xxiv. 31; xxvi. 135, 290, 469; xxxii. 75, 490; HMC Hatfield, xi. 372; A. Beesley, Hist. Banbury, 254–8; Oxf. Council Acts (Oxf. Hist. Soc. lxxxvi), 205; Berks. RO, Wallingford minute bk. f. 98v; J. K. Hedges, Hist. Wallingford, ii. 241; B. Challenor, Abingdon Recs. 141; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 381; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 328; Add. 1580–1625, p. 544.

Parlimentarian
KNOLLYS, William (c.1545-1632), of Rotherfield Greys and Caversham, Oxon.
Main residences: Rotherfield Greys; Caversham, Oxon.
Author
A.H.
M.A.P.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title

KNOLLYS, William (c.1545-1632)

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