HOLCROFT, Sir Henry (c.1586-1650), of Long Acre, Westminster and Greenstreet House, East Ham, Essex

Family and Education

b. c. 1586, 2nd s. of Thomas Holcroft† (d.1591) of Battersea, Surr. and Joan, da. and h. of Henry Roydon of Battersea, Surr.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 421; J.G. Taylor, Our Lady of Batersey, 46, 209. educ. St. John’s, Camb. c.1601; L. Inn 1604. Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. m. by 1620, Lettice, da. of Francis Aungier†, 1st Bar. Aungier of Longford [I], wid. of Edward Cherry of Dublin and Sir William Danvers of Tockenham, Wilts., 5s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.). Burke, Extinct Peerage, i. 18; Coll. Top. et Gen. iii. 158-9; F.N. Macnamara, Memorials of Danvers Fam. 541-2. suc. bro. 1601; CSP Dom. 1601-3, p. 98. Kntd. 1 May 1622. J. Nichols, Progs. of Jas. I, iii. 761. d. by June 1650. PROB 11/212/316v.

Offices Held

Groom of the privy chamber to Queen Anne 1603–16; LR6/154/9, unfol.; SP14/86/180. sec. to Sir Oliver St. John*, ld. dep. [I] 1616–21; HMC Hastings, iv. 49–53; CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 139. remembrancer for Irish affairs 1622–9; C78/240/2; CSP Ire. 1625–32, pp. 18, 259; APC, 1621–3, p. 398; 1623–5, p. 455. commr. review [I] 1625; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 46. member, council of war 1643; CJ, iii. 191. commr. sale of Crown lands 1649; A. and O. ii. 170, 359. trustee for maintenance of ministers 1649–d.; Ibid. 143, 149. member, High Ct. of Justice 1650. Ibid. 365.

J.p. Essex 1639–d.; HMC Westmld. 507–10; C231/5, p. 356. commr. assessment, Essex 1640, 1643 – d., Westminster 1649–d., SR, v. 151; HMC 4th Rep. 276; A. and O. i. 91, 536, 638, 965, 1082; ii. 39. sequestration, Essex 1643, levying money 1643, defence of Eastern Assoc. 1643, reqisitioning timber in Waltham Forest, Essex 1644; A. and O. i. 112, 147, 229, 243, 292, 422. dep. lt. Essex by 1644; CCAM, 388. commr. New Model Ordinance, Essex 1645, militia 1648; A. and O. i. 621, 1237; ii. 34. elder, Becontree classis, Essex 1648. W.A. Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church 1640–60, ii. 374.

Parlimentarian

HOLCROFT, Sir Henry (c.1586-1650), of Long Acre, Westminster and Greenstreet House, East Ham, Essex

Main residences: Long Acre, Westminster; Greenstreet House, East Ham, Essex.

Author

V.C.D.M.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HOLCROFT, Sir Henry (c.1586-1650)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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