YARD, Robert (c.1651-1705), of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1651. educ. Holland 1666–7. m. ?(1) lic. 19 Nov. 1680 Ellenor Pearce; (2) lic. 22 Oct. 1681, aged about 30, Jane, da. of Henry Weston† of Ockham, Surr., sis. of John Weston*, 1s. CSP Dom. 1666–7, pp. 17, 52, 104, 419; 1667, p. 161; Mar. Lic. Fac. Off. (Br. Rec. Soc. xxxiii), 76; Mar. Lic. Vicar-Gen. (Harl. Soc. xxx), 76.

Offices Held

Clerk in secretary of state’s office 1668–? Dec. 1688; chief clerk Feb. 1689–Nov. 1693; under-secretary Mar. 1694–May 1702; secretary to envoy extraordinary in Spain 1669, Russia 1669, Poland 1669–70; secretary to lords justices 1698–1701; writer of Gazette ?1670–1702; commr. for prizes 1702–d. Luttrell, Brief Relation, iv. 404, 661; v. 182; CSP Dom. 1699–1700, p. 359; 1700–2, p. 409; P. M. Handover, Hist. London Gazette, 18, 33.

Parlimentarian

YARD, Robert (c.1651-1705), of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx.

Main residence: St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx.

Author

S.N.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

YARD, Robert (c.1651-1705)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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