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Family and Education
b. 11 July 1610, o.s. of Sir Henry Widdrington† of Swinburne Castle, Northumb. and Mary, da. of Sir Henry Curwen† of Workington, Cumb.WARD7/70/189; Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 2, ii. 237-8. m. 10 Jan. 1630, Mary, da. of Sir Anthony Thorold of Blankney, Lincs. 8s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Blankney par. reg.; SP23/133, pp. 90, 125, 139; CCC 2416, 2417; Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 2, ii. 237-8. suc. fa. 4 Sept. 1623;Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 2, ii. 237. Kntd. 19 Mar. 1632;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 199. cr. bt. 9 July 1642;CB. cr. Baron Widdrington of Blankney, 2 Nov. 1643.CP. d. 25 Aug. 1651.Two Letters from Col. Robert Lilburne (1651), 3 (E.640.26).
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Northumb. 14 Dec. 1632-c.1644.C231/5, p. 95. Custos rot. 14 Dec. 1632-c.1644.C231/5, p. 95. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 23 Jan. 1635-aft. June 1641;C181/4, f. 197v; C181/5, ff. 8, 203v. malefactors, northern marches 30 Nov. 1635.CSP Dom. 1635, p. 510. Sheriff, Northumb. 3 Oct. 1636–30 Sept. 1637.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 99. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral by May 1637.LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/004, p. 29. Dep lt. by Jan. 1640–?CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 312. Commr. assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 18 June 1642; Lincs. 4 July 1642; co. Dur. 16 Oct. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Court: gent. of privy chamber to prince of Wales, c.May 1638–?Strafforde Letters, ii. 168; Clarendon, Hist. v. 185. Master in chancery, extraordinary, Jan. 1644–?Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 120.

Military: col. of horse, dragoons and ft. (roy.) c.Oct. 1642-c.1644.Add. 18777, f. 31v; Clarendon, Hist. v. 185; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 339; P. R. Newman, Royalist Officers (New York, 1981), 411. Pres. council of war, northern roy. army, Dec. 1642-c. July 1644.Newman, Royalist Officers, 411; CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 482; Newcastle Mems. ed. Firth, 89. Col.-gen. Lincs., Notts. and Rutland c.Aug. 1643-c.July 1644.Newcastle Mems. ed. Firth, 29, 89.

: of Widdrington, Northumb. and Lincs., Blankney.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.F.J.A. Skeet, Hist. of the Fams. of Skeet, Somerscales, Widdrington (1906), opp. 95.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WITHRINGTON, Sir William (1610-51), of Widdrington, Northumb., and Blankney, Lincs.

Will
not found.
Estates
inheritance inc. manors of Burradon, Colwell, Denton, Ellington, Haughton, Linton, Newbiggin, Swinburn, Withrington and Woodhorn and lands and tenements in the same and in Bewclay, Bingfield, Black Callerton, Druridge, Hirst, Kellaw and Whittington, Northumb.C142/404/139; SP23/133, pp. 109-115, 120, 127-36; Recs. of the Cttees. for Compounding...in Durham and Northumb. ed. R. Welford (Surt. Soc. cxi), 380. By marriage, acquired manors of Blankney, Martin and Scopwick and lands in Blankney, Kirkby Green, Mareham le Fen, Martin, Scopwick and Timberland, Lincs.SP23/133, pp. 90, 139-51; Lincs. RO, THOR/2/12; CCC 2416. In 1642, sold Haughton Castle and township, Northumb. for £2,500.Hist. Northumb. xv. 207.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
presented Isaac Marrow to rectory of Elsdon, Northumb. 1624; Edward Rowse, 1644; Thomas Pye, 1646.IND17000/1, f. 203.
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