Family and Education
?illegit. s. of one Kynnerd, of Worcs. m. (1) Elizabeth (d.1585); (2) Mary (d.1595); (3) Elizabeth, wid. of Charles Towers of Holy Island; 1s. 1da. illegit. Kntd. 1586.Surtees Soc. clxii. 2-3.
Offices Held
Lt. in command of Wark castle 1547; capt. in Berwick garrison 1555; capt. of Holy and Farne Islands 1555 – d.; sergeant maj. later lt.-col. gen. with Leicester in the Netherlands 1586.
J.p. Northumb. from 1577, q. from 1593; co. Dur. from 1583, q. from 1593.
Main residence: Holy Island, Northumb.
KYNNERD
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Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
READE ALIAS KYNNERD, Sir William (-d.1604)
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Oxford 1644
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