Family and Education
b. c. 1649, 1st s. of Sir John Povey of Woodseaves, nr. Market Drayton, Salop, baron of the exchequer [I] and c.j. Kb [I], by Elizabeth, da. of Guthlake Folliott of Worcester. educ. Trinity Coll. Dublin, 19 Apr. 1666, aged 16; G. Inn 1669, called 1679. m. 12 Nov. 1693, Mary, da. and h. of Thomas Vivian (d. 1691) of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster by Anne, da. of Justinian Povey, of Hounslow, Mdx., wid. of William Blathwayt of the Middle Temple, 2s. at least. suc. fa. 1679. F. E. Ball, Judges in Ire. i. 279, 287, 289, 311, 350–1; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 755; G. A. Jacobsen, William Blathwayt, 61.
Offices Held
Clerk of trade and plantations c.1684–?92, assistant. sec. 1692–6; clerk to sec. at war 1684; clerk of PC extraord. 1692–7, ord. 1697–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: St. James’s, Westminster, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
POVEY, John (c.1649-1715)
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Oxford 1644
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