PERCIVAL (PERCYVALL, PERCEVAL), Richard (c.1558-1620), of Sydenham, Som.; Kensington, Mdx.; and Salisbury House, The Strand, Westminster; later of Dublin and Liscarroll, co. Cork

b. c. 1558, Assuming he was aged 18 at entry to L. Inn. 1st s. of George Percyvall of Nailsea and Sydenham, Som. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Bampfylde of Poltimore, Devon. Vis. Som. ed. Weaver, 61; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 39. educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1571; L. Inn 1576, called 1615; travelled abroad (Spain) ?early 1580s. Reg. Merchant Taylors’ Sch. ed. C.J. Robinson, i. 18; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 173; HMC Egmont, i. 487. m. (1) by 1582 (without portion), Joan (d. c.1584/5), da. of Henry Young of Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, ?wid. of John Royall, 3s. d.v.p. 2da.; J. Anderson, Hist. of House of Yvery (1742), ii. 121, 138-40; HMC Hatfield, xiii. 79; Harl. 1166, f. 23. (2) by 1599, Alice, da. of John Sherman of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, 2s. 2da. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 29; Anderson, ii. 138-140. Alice does not appear in the Sherman pedigree in Vis. Devon (Harl. Soc. vi), 260. suc. fa. c.1600. Anderson, ii. 126; VCH Som. vi. 329. d. 4 Sept. 1620. Anderson, ii. 138. sig. Ri[chard] Perciuall.