MYDDELTON, Hugh (c.1560-1631), of Bassishaw (Basinghall) Street, London and Bush Hill, Edmonton, Mdx.; later of The Lodge, Talybont, Card.

Family and Education

b. c. 1560, 6th s. of Richard Myddelton† (d.1577/8) of Galch Hill, nr. Denbigh, Denb. and Jane, da. of Hugh Dryhurst, alderman of Denbigh;J.E. Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams, 285; J.W. Gough, Sir Hugh Myddelton, 4. bro. of Robert* and Sir Thomas I*. educ. appr. Goldsmith, London 1576-85; factor, Antwerp, 1585. Gough, 4-5; NLW, Chirk F12540, p. 25. m. (1) shortly bef. 5 Nov. 1585, Anne (bur. 11 Jan. 1597), da. of one Collins of Lichfield, Staffs., wid. of Richard Edwards of London, s.p.; Gough, 4-5; St. Matthew, Friday St. (Harl. Soc. reg. lxiii), 117. (2) 1598, Elizabeth (d. 19 July 1643), da. and h. of John Olmstead of Ingatestone, Essex, 7s. (4 d.v.p.) 6da. Griffith, 285; W.S. Prideaux, Memorials of Goldsmiths’ Co. i. 214; Gough, 2, 5, 8-9, 16 n. 3, 132, 134. cr. bt. 22 Oct. 1622. C66/2271/32. d. 7 Dec. 1631. Smyth’s Obit. ed. H. Ellis (Cam. Soc. xliv), 6. sig. Hugh Myddelton.

Offices Held

Freeman, Goldsmiths’ Co., London 1585, liveryman 1592, asst. by 1604 – d., warden 1604 – 06, master 1610 – 11, 1624–5; Gough, 4–5; NLW, Chirk F12540, p. 17; Prideaux, i. 86, 119; APC, 1623–5, p. 283. farmer, Mines Royal, Card. 1617 – d.; gov., New River Co. 1619–d. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 111; Gough, 70–1, 109; C66/2350/3.

Alderman, Denbigh 1597–d.; Gough, 9. churchwarden, St. Matthew Friday St. London, 1598–1600; Ibid. 23. recorder, Ruthin lordship Feb. 1604, by 1611 – d., Denbigh lordship 1619–d.; J. Williams, Recs. Denbigh Lordship, 65–7, 76; E315/310, ff. 22, 24v; SC6/Jas.I/1555–6. trustee, Latymer sch. Edmonton, Mdx. c.1612; Gough, 14. commr. new buildings, London 1630. T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, p. 114.

Commr. exacted fees 1630–d.CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 179; G.E. Aylmer, ‘Charles I’s Commission on Fees, 1627–40’, BIHR, xxxi. 61.

Parlimentarian

MYDDELTON, Hugh (c.1560-1631), of Bassishaw (Basinghall) Street, London and Bush Hill, Edmonton, Mdx.; later of The Lodge, Talybont, Card.

Main residences: Bassishaw (Basinghall) Street, London; Bush Hill, Edmonton, Mdx.; The Lodge, Talybont, Card.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MYDDELTON, Hugh (c.1560-1631)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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