MEYRICK (MERRICK), Gelly (c.1556-1601), of Gellyswick, Hascard, Pemb.; Wigmore Castle, Herefs.; Gladestry, Rad. and Essex House, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1556, 1st s. of Rowland Meyrick, bp. of Bangor, by Catherine, da. of Owen Barret of Gellyswick. m. 1584, Elizabeth or Margaret, da. of Ieuan Lewis of Gladestry, wid. of John Gwynne of Llanelwedd, Rad., 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1566. Kntd. 1596.

Offices Held

Steward of Welsh lands of Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex c. 1587, his receiver gen. for wine impost 1598; j.p. Rad. from c. 1591, custos rot. 1598, dep. lt. 1598; lt.-col. under Essex at Cadiz 1596, Azores 1597, marshal of forces under Essex in Ulster 1599.DWB; Dwnn, Vis. Wales, i. 70, 136–7, 185, 214; HMC Hatfield, viii. 368; APC, xxviii. 500; D. Mathew, Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe, 348; PRO Index 4208.

Parlimentarian

MEYRICK (MERRICK), Gelly (c.1556-1601), of Gellyswick, Hascard, Pemb.; Wigmore Castle, Herefs.; Gladestry, Rad. and Essex House, London.

Main residences: Gellyswick, Hascard, Pemb. and Wigmore Castle, Herefs. and and Gladestry, Rad. and Essex House, London.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

MEYRICK (MERRICK), Gelly (c.1556-1601)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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