Family and Education
b. July 1637, yr. s. of Thomas Ken (d.1651) of London, att. E.H. Plumptre, The Life of Thomas Ken, DD, Bishop of Bath and Wells (1895), i. 1-4, 12. and 2nd. w. Martha (d.1641), da. of John Chalkhill, poet, of St Giles Cripplegate, London and Berkhamsted Herts. educ. Winchester, 1651-6; Hart Hall, Oxf. 1657; New, Oxf., BA 1661, ord. 1662, MA, 1665, DD 1679. unm. d. 19 Mar. 1711; will undated, pr. 24 Apr. 1711. TNA, PROB 11/520.
Offices Held
Chap. to Mary, Princess of Orange, 1679–80,
Fell. New Coll., Oxf. 1661 – 66, Winchester, 1666 – 85.
Rect. Little Easton, Essex, 1663 – 65, Brightstone, I.o.W, 1667 – 69; East Woodhay, Hants 1669 – 72; spiritual adviser to Margaret, Baroness Maynard 1663 – 82; chap. to George Morley, bp. of Winchester, 1665 – 84, to George Legge, Bar. Dartmouth, 1683 – 84; non-stipendary cur. St John in the Soke, Winchester, Hants 1665 – 75; preb. Winchester 1669.
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Little Berkhamsted, Herts.; Longleat, Wilts.; Poulshot, Wilts.
Likenesses
oil on canvas by F. Scheffer, c.1700, NPG 1821.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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