Family and Education
b. 1 Sept. 1634, s. of Thomas Cartwright, DD, master of Brentwood g.s., Essex. educ. Northampton g.s.; Magdalen, Oxf.; Queen’s, Oxf. matric. 1650, BA 1653, MA 1655, DD 1661. m. (1) 25 Mar. 1656, Mary Halldanby (d. 3 Dec. 1661) of St Clements without Temple Bar, 2s. 2da.; Jnl. Chester Arch. and Hist. Soc. n.s. iv. 23; St Mary Magdalen Milk St. 1558-1666 (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxxii), 10, 13. (2) lic. 27 May 1662, Sarah, da. of Henry Wight of Barking, Essex, 4s.; (3) 1684, Frances Barnard. Jnl. Chester Arch. and Hist. Soc. n.s. iv. 23. d. 15 Apr. 1689; will 1 Sept. 1687, pr. 12 June 1689. TNA, PROB 11/395.
Offices Held
Chap. to Henry, duke of Gloucester, 1660, to Charles II 1672.
Vic. Walthamstow, Essex 1657, Barking, Essex 1660 – 88; chap. to alderman John Robinson‡, bt., sheriff of London, 1659; preacher, St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London 1659; rect. St Thomas Apostle, Queen St., London 1665, Wigan 1686 – 89; canon Wells 1660 – 84; prebend, St Paul’s 1665 – 86, Durham 1672 – 86; dean Ripon 1675 – 86.
Commr. for ecclesiastical causes 1687 – 88.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Northampton, Northants.
Likenesses
oil on canvas, after G. Soest, c.1680, NPG 1090; oil on canvas by unknown artist, c. 1686-9, NPG 1613.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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