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b. 3 Mar. 1606,C142/359/136. 1st s. of Robert Waller of Coleshill, Amersham, Bucks. and Anne, da. of Griffith Hampden of Great Hampden, Bucks. Lipscomb, Bucks. iii. 182; VCH Bucks. iii. 158-9. educ. privately, High Wycombe g.s. (Gerard Dobson), Eton c.1618-21, King’s, Camb. 1621, L. Inn 1622. J. Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 274, 278; Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry; Al Cant.; LI Admiss. m. (1) 15 July 1631 (with £8,000) Memorials of St Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 339; CLRO, Letter Bk. LL, f. 219. Anne (bur. 23 Oct. 1634), Beaconsfield Par. Reg. (Beaconsfield and District Hist. Soc., iii), 160. da. and h. of John Bancks, Mercer, of London, 1s. d.v.p. 1da.; Lipscomb, iii. 182. (2) by 1644, Mary (bur. 2 May 1677), Beaconsfield Par. Reg. 168. da. of one Bracey of Thame, Oxon., 5s. (1 d.v.p.), 8da. (2 d.v.p.). E. Waller, Poems (1722), xxxix-xl; Poems of Edmund Waller ed. G. Thorn Drury, pp. xii, lxvii. suc. fa. 26 Aug. 1616. C142/359/136. d. 21 Oct. 1687. Lipscomb, iii. 201; W.H. Hastings Kelle, ‘Amersham’, Recs. of Bucks. ii. 349. sig. Edm[und] Waller.
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J.p. Bucks. 1633–43; C231/5, pp. 101, 222, 437. commr. oyer and terminer 1640, C181/5, f. 176v. array 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. Midlands assoc., 1642, Poll Tax, Bucks. 1660, 1666, assessment 1661, 1664 – 65, 1672, 1677, corporations 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers, Mdx. 1662, highways and sewers, London and Westminster 1662 – 63, assessment, Bucks. 1663 – 74, 1679 – 80, Mdx. 1664 – 69, Westminster 1673 – 79, subsidy, Bucks. 1663, 1678–9. C181/7, pp. 198, 214; Diary of John Evelyn ed. E.S. de Beer, iii. 319; SR, v. 209, 328, 455, 528, 570, 582, 619, 755, 805, 852, 869, 900; HEHL, Stowe no. 2, f. 452; HMC Lords, i. 174.

Commr. trade 1655 – 57, 1660 – 68, plantations 1660 – 72, trade and plantations 1672–4. CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 54; Officials of Boards of Trade comp. J.C. Sainty (Office Holders in Modern Britain iii), 21, 23, 119.

FRS 1663–82. Recs. Royal Soc. (4th edn.), 16, 377.

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WALLER, Edmund (1606-1687), of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks.; later of St. James’s Street, Westminster
Main residences: Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks.; St. James's Street, Westminster.
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WALLER, Edmund (1606-1687)

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