Family and Education
b. 28 Mar. 1580,R. Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 205. 1st s. of John Keightley, yeoman, of Trimpley, Kidderminster, Worcs. and Whittington, Kinver, Staffs., and Elizabeth, da. of one Hill, wid. of one Dawson. educ. appr. skinner, London 1597. Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 30; Soc. Gen. Kinver par. reg.; GL, ms 30719/1, f. 232. m. 4 Mar. 1616, H. Evelyn, Hist. of Evelyn Fam. 515. Rose (d.1682), da. of Thomas Evelyn of Long Ditton, Surr., 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 5da. (3 d.v.p.). Clutterbuck, ii. 205; Vis. London, 30; St. Dunstan-in-the-East (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxix), 52, 54, 56, 61, 63-5, 68, 181, 194, 213. suc. fa. 1619. Worcs. RO, wills 1619, no. 165. d. 22 Feb. 1663. Clutterbuck, ii. 205.
Offices Held

Member, Virg. Co. 1609, A. Brown, Genesis of US, 224. cttee. and auditor 1619–24; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 213, 229; ii. 536. freeman, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. 1615, T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 326. Skinners’ Co. 1616, asst. 1628, warden 1636 – 37, 1638 – 39, master 1641–2; GL, ms 30719/2, f. 104; 30708/3. member, E.I. Co. 1618, CSP Col. E.I. 1617–21, p. 142. cttee. 1622 – 23, by 1625, 1638–9, Ibid. 1622–4, p. 121; 1625–9, p. 80; Rabb, 326; A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of London, ii. 65; Ct. Mins. of E.I. Co. 1635–9 ed. E.B. Sainsbury, 306. asst. Somers Is. Co. 1623. Info. from Professor Ruth Clinefelter.

Member, Council for Virg. 1620. Recs. Virg. Co. i. 383.

Member, common council, London by 1640; V. Pearl, London and Outbreak of Puritan Revolution, 196. commr. assessment, Herts. 1644, 1649 – 52, 1657, A. and O. i. 539; ii. 300, 665, 1070. sheriff 1650–1. List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 64.

Main residences: Mincing Lane, London; Hertingfordbury Park, Herts.
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Commons 1604-1629
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KEIGHTLEY, Thomas (1580-1663)

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Oxford 1644
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