IRETON, Henry (1611-51), of Attenborough, Notts.

Family and Education

bap. 3 Nov. 1611, 1st s. of German Ireton of Attenborough, and Jane; bro. of John Ireton*.Attenborough par. reg.; D. Farr, Henry Ireton and the English Revolution (Woodbridge, 2006) 15. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 20 June 1628, BA 1629;Al. Ox. M. Temple 24 Nov. 1629.M. Temple Admiss. i. 123. m. 15 June 1646, Bridget (bur. 1 July 1662), da. of Oliver Cromwell* of Ely, Cambs. 1s. 4da.Holton, Oxon. par. reg.; E. P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana (1873), 327; Farr, Ireton, 54. suc. fa. May 1624.Attenborough par. reg.; Farr, Ireton, 22. d. 26 Nov. 1651.Farr, Ireton, 3-4.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), 1 July 1642-c.Jan. 1643, Apr. – May 1645; maj. c.Jan. 1643-Apr. 1645.LJ v. 173b-174a; SP28/1a, ff. 86, 448; SP28/5, ff. 69, 163; SP28/255, unfol. (Ireton to Cttee. of Accts.* Sept. 1644); Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 14–15; R.K.G. Temple, ‘The original officer list of the New Model Army’, BIHR lix. 66. Dep. gov. I. of Ely Sept. 1643-aft. Oct. 1644.SP28/255; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 49. Q.m.g. of horse, 25 June 1644-c.Apr. 1645;SP28/255; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 15; Farr, Ireton, 45, 47. col. May 1645-aft. Nov. 1648;Moderate Intelligencer no. 11 (8–15 May 1645), 88 (E.284.6); CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 320; I. Gentles, New Model Army (Oxford, 1992), 53. commry.-gen. 14 June 1645–?Oct. 1650.J. Sprigge, Anglia Rediviva (1647), 35; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 225. Member, gen. cttee. of officers, 29 Aug. 1647.Clarke Pprs. i. 223–4. Maj.-gen. army in Ireland, 15 June 1649–d.CJ vi. 234a.

Local: dep. lt. Notts. by 9 Aug. 1642–?LJ v. 275b. Member, Notts. co. cttee. 24 Jan. 1643–?CJ ii. 940b. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Westmld. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Hants 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; sequestration, Notts. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643;A. and O. Northern Assoc. 27 Nov. 1645;HMC Portland, i. 286; CJ iv. 346a; LJ viii. 13a. sewers, Deeping and Gt. Level 31 Jan. 1646;C181/5, f. 269v. northern cos. militia, Notts. 23 May 1648; militia, Westmld. 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. Derby House cttee. 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 8 Feb., 29 May 1649;CJ vi. 134b, 219b. cttee. regulating universities, 4 May 1649. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 4 May 1649;CJ vi. 201a. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649;A. and O. for Ireland, 25 Dec. 1650.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b.

Irish: pres. Munster, 4 Dec. 1649–d.CJ vi. 328a. Trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 11 Mar. 1650.A. and O. Ld. dep. 2 July 1650–d.CJ vi. 435a.

: of Attenborough, Notts.

Likenesses

Likenesses: medal, T. Simon, 1650;BM. oil on canvas, attrib. R. Walker aft. S. Cooper, c.1650;NPG. oil on canvas, attrib. R. Walker aft. S. Cooper, c.1650;Petworth, Suss. oil on canvas, aft. R. Walker, c.1650;Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warws. oil on canvas, circle of W. Dobson;Capt. Christie Crawfurd English Civil War Colln., Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. line engraving, unknown, aft. 1650.NPG. miniature, G.P. Harding aft. S. Cooper, eighteenth century.Fitzwilliam Museum, Camb.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

IRETON, Henry (1611-51), of Attenborough, Notts.

Will

died intestate.

Estates

probably worth less than £100 p.a. bef. civil war.Farr, Ireton, 34. In 1639, purchased manor of Minshull Vernon and Minshull Park, with lands and woods, Cheshire, for £5,500, paying a further £500 in 1651.C54/3419/40; C54/3591/40. On marriage in 1646, assigned lease of a farm in Ely by Cromwell.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, i. 401-2. By 1651, acquired at least 6,669 acres in co. Kilkenny, Ireland, purchased with £6,669 in arrears of army pay.The Carte Manuscripts in the Bodl. Lib. ed. C.W. Russell, J.P. Prendergast (1871), 174-5; ‘Henry Ireton’, Oxford DNB. At d. inc. manor of Minshull Vernon ‘of £300 p.a. and upwards’ and ‘a small manor in Swarston in Leicestershire [recte Derbys.]’.E178/6323. Estate in Cheshire valued aft. Restoration at £112 p.a.LR2/266, f. 1v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Mr Campion’s house, Putney, Surr. (Aug-Nov. 1647).Perfect Occurrences no. 35 (27 Aug.-3 Sept. 1647), 234 (E.518.26).

Religion

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