FLEETWOOD, William (1656-1723) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 1 Jan. 1656, 3rd s. of Capt. Geoffrey Fleetwood (d.1665), ordnance officer at the Tower of London, of Hesketh, Lancs. and Anne, da. of Richard Smith, prothonotary of the Poultry Compter, London. R.W. Buss, Ancestry of William Fleetwood, bishop of St. Asaph and Ely, 3-4. educ. Eton 1671-5; King’s, Camb. BA 1680, MA 1683, DD 1705. m. 1690 Anne Smith (d.1725), of London, Buss, Ancestry of William Fleetwood, pedigree. 1s. Parish Reg. St. Botolph without Aldersgate, 1466-1890. d. 4 Aug. 1723. will 6 Nov. 1718 – 15 Apr. 1723, pr. 14 Aug. 1723. TNA, PROB 11/592.

Offices Held

Fell., King’s, Camb. 1678, Eton 1691; mbr. SPG 1701; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 358. commr. 50 new churches 1715–d. The Commissions for building fifty new churches ed. M.H. Port (London Rec. Soc. xxiii), p. xxxv.

Lecturer, St Dunstan-in-the-West, London 1689 – 1705; rect. St Augustine, London 1689 – 1706, Wexham, Bucks. 1705 – 23; canon, Windsor 1702–1708. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, comp. Le Neve ed. Hardy (1854), iii. 406.

Chap. to William III, 1691 – 1702, Queen Anne, 1702–1708. W. Fleetwood, A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons … the 5th of November, 1691 (1691).

Parlimentarian

FLEETWOOD, William (1656-1723)

Associated with: Dean’s Yard, Westminster c.1708–14; Tottenham, Mdx. 1723

Likenesses

mezzotint by John Simon (after J. Richardson), BM 1902,1011.4258.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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