SHILTON (SHELTON, SHELDON), Sir Richard (1578-1647), of the Inner Temple, London and West Bromwich, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. 1578, 2nd s. of John Shilton (admon.1602), mercer of Birmingham, Warws. and Barbara, da. of Francis Stanley of West Bromwich. educ. Clement’s Inn; I. Temple 1597, called 1606.I. Temple Admiss.; CITR, ii. 21. m. Lettice (bur. 23 July 1642), da. of Sir Robert Fisher of Pakington, Warws., s.p. Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. lxii), 34; W. Bromwich par. reg. (Staffs. par. reg. soc.), 69. Kntd. 31 Oct. 1625. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 190. bur. 7 Dec. 1647 7 Dec. 1647. W. Bromwich par. reg. 74. sig. Ri[chard] Shilton.

Offices Held

Reader, Lyon’s Inn 1618, I. Temple 1625; Readers and Readings at Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 98, 208, 429. steward, reader’s dinner, I. Temple 1622, bencher, 1622 – d., treas. 1628–9; CITR, ii. 130, 136, 170. fee’d counsel, Camb. Univ. 1625–31; CD 1628, iv. 40. sol. gen. 1625 – 34; KC 1634–d. C66/2371/4; List of Eng. Law Officers comp. J. Sainty (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 62, 85.

J.p. Staffs. 1627 – 42, Mdx. 1629–42; C231/4, f. 230. commr. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1627 – 42, Mdx. 1628 – 42, London 1629 – 42, recusancy composition, N. parts 1628, sewers, London 1629 – 42, new bldgs., 1630; C181/3, ff. 217, 244, 255v; CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 205; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, p. 114. member, Council in the Marches 1633;Rymer, viii. pt. 4, p. 6. commr. piracy, Thames estuary 1633. C181/4, f. 138v.

Member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1626 – ?34; commr. St. Paul’s cathedral repair 1631. R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 358.

Parlimentarian

SHILTON (SHELTON, SHELDON), Sir Richard (1578-1647), of the Inner Temple, London and West Bromwich, Staffs.

Main residences: the Inner Temple, London; West Bromwich, Staffs.

Shelton, Sheldon

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

SHILTON (SHELTON, SHELDON), Sir Richard (1578-1647)

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Oxford 1644

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