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Family and Education
bap. 3 Dec. 1598, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Waller† of Groombridge, Kent and Margaret, da. of Sampson Lennard† of Knole, Kent.Vis. Kent 1619-21 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 130; J. Adair, Roundhead General: The Campaigns of Sir William Waller (Stroud, 1997). educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 2 Dec. 1612;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France, Italy);The Poetry of Anna Matilda (1788), 113. G. Inn 21 Nov. 1632.GI Admiss. 198. m. (1) 12 Aug. 1622, Jane (bur. 18 May 1633), da. and h. of Sir Richard Reynell of Ford House, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1s. d.v.p. 1da.;Vis. Kent 1619-21, 130; Regs. of the Abbey Church of SS Peter and Paul, Bath, ed. A. J. Jewers (Harl. Soc. xxvii-xxviii), ii. 355. (2) Lady Anne Finch (d. 1652), da. of Thomas Finch†, 2nd earl of Winchelsea, 2s. 1da.;Poetry of Anna Matilda, 127-8. (3) 13 Apr. 1652, Anne (d. Oct. 1661), da. of William, 5th Baron Paget, wid. of Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon, 1s.Holy Trinity the Less, London par. reg. suc. fa. 1613; Kntd. 20 June 1622.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 179. d. 19 Sept. 1668.Ath. Ox. iii. 817.
Offices Held

Central: chief butler, 1613–d.HP Commons, 1604–1629, ‘Sir Thomas Waller’. Member, cttee. of safety, 4 July 1642;CJ ii. 651b. cttee. of both kingdoms, 16 Feb., 23 May 1644. Commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644. Member, cttee. for revenues of elector palatine, 8 Oct. 1645; cttee. for foreign plantations, 21 Mar. 1646; Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 2 June 1646.CJ iv. 549a; LJ viii. 351a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 21 May 1647.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.CJ vii. 849b; A. and O.

Military: vol. Venice 1618; Low Countries and Bohemia 1619–21.Poetry of Anna Matilda, 108–9. Col. of horse (parlian.), Aug. 1642.Peacock, Army Lists, 45, 47; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. C.-in-c. and sgt.-maj.-gen. Glos., Wilts., Som., Worcs. and Salop 11 Feb. 1643.A. and O. Gov. Portsmouth Sept.-Oct. 1643.CJ iii. 237b. Maj.-gen. Kent, Suss., Surr. and Hants Jan. 1644-Apr. 1645.A. and O.; CJ iii. 356b-357a.

Local: j.p. Devon May 1631 – July 1633; Hants 22 Sept. 1648 – bef.Jan. 1650; Mdx. Westminster, Oxon. Mar. 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 65, 69; C231/6, p. 122; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Hants 1642, 23 June 1647; Mdx. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664; Oxon., Westminster 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). levying of money, Hants 7 May 1643, 10 June 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Mdx., Westminster, Oxon. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Mdx., Westminster, Oxon. 1660.SR.

Religious: elder, second Hants classis, 8 Dec. 1645.King, Bor. and Par. Lymington, 262–3.

: of Winchester Castle, Hants., Winchester.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, C. Johnson, 1643;NPG. oils, P. Lely, 1645;Goodwood House, Suss. oil on canvas, aft. C. Johnson, aft. 1648;NPG. etching, unknown;NPG. line engraving, unknown;NPG. etching unknown;NPG. etching, P. Rottermond aft. C. Johnson, 1643;BM; NPG. line engraving, unknown, 1646;J. Ricraft, A perfect List of all the Victories (1646, 669.f.10.79). line engraving, unknown, 1647;J. Ricraft, A Survey of Englands Champions (1647), opp. 45. line engraving, unknown, 1647;J. Vicars, England’s Worthies (1647), 77. line engraving, N. Yeates aft. P. Lely, 1680;BM. medal, unknown, 1643.BM.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WALLER, Sir William (1598-1668), of Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hants.

Will
27 Apr. 1668, codicils 11 and 21 July 1668, pr. 25 June 1669.PROB11/330/234.
Estates
very wealthy; sold advowson and lands at Brenchley, Kent, 1631;Coventry Docquets, 612. granted Winchester Castle and the forest of Bere, Hants 1638;CSP Dom. 1637-8, p. 447. bought Osterley House, Isleworth, Mdx. c.1655;VCH Mdx. iii. 109. goods at Osterley valued at £2,761 19s 4d after his death.M. Reed, ‘Osterley Park in 1668: the probate inventory of Sir William Waller’, Trans. London and Mdx. Arch. Soc. xlii. 120.
Oxford 1644
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