HELE, Sir Warwick (c.1563-1626), of Wembury, Devon and Paternoster Row, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1563, C142/311/117. 1st s. of Sir John Hele† of the Inner Temple and Wembury and Mary, da. and coh. of Ellis Warwick of Holbeton, Devon; bro. of John* and Nicholas*. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 464. educ. I. Temple 1581-2; I. Temple Admiss. travelled abroad (France) 1609-10. SO3/4; Winwood’s Memorials ed. E. Sawyer, iii. 106. m. (1) Mary, da. of John Halse of Kenedon and wid. of William Hawkins (d.1589), merchant, of Plymouth, Devon, s.p.; (2) by July 1606, Margaret, da. of Sir William Courtenay† of Powderham, Devon, s.p. Vivian, 464; M. Lewis, Hawkins Dynasty, 68; C142/311/117. Kntd. 22 May 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 110. suc. fa. 1608. d. 15 Jan. 1626. Vivian, 464; C142/423/80. sig. Warwick Hele.

Offices Held

J.p. Devon 1598–d., C231/1, f. 45v; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 6. treas. for maimed soldiers (jt.) 1600–1, Devon RO, Q. Sess. order-bk. 1600–7, p. 1. commr. piracy 1603, 1606, 1614, 1619 – 20, 1624, Exeter, Devon 1606, 1612, C181/1, f. 61v; 181/2, ff. 52, 175, 200v, 348; 181/3, ff. 1v, 130. recusants, Devon 1606, L.F.W. Jewitt, Plymouth, 143. oyer and terminer 1612, Western circ. 1617–d.; C181/2, ff. 164v, 269; 181/3, f. 178. sheriff, Devon 1618–19; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 37. commr. subsidy, Devon 1621 – 22, 1624, C212/22/20–1, 23. fees 1623, Bodl. Tanner 287, f. 72. billeting, Devon and Cornw. 1625. APC, 1625–6, pp. 55–6, 266–8.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609, Africa Co. 1618. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 312.

Parlimentarian

HELE, Sir Warwick (c.1563-1626), of Wembury, Devon and Paternoster Row, London.

Main residences: Wembury, Devon; Paternoster Row, London.

Author

J.P.F.

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HELE, Sir Warwick (c.1563-1626)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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