WALLER, Edmund (1606-87), of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. 3 Mar. 1606, 1st s. of Robert Waller of Coleshill, Amersham, Bucks. and Anne, da. of Griffith Hampden of Gt. Hampden, Bucks.W.H.H. Kelke, ‘Amersham’, Recs. of Bucks. ii. 349; Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 274; Lipscomb, Buckingham, iii. 182. educ. High Wycombe g.s. Bucks.; Eton c.1618-21; King’s, Camb. Easter 1621; L. Inn 3 July 1622;Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 274; VCH Bucks. ii. 211; W. Sterry, The Eton College Reg. 1441-1698 (Eton, 1943), 347; Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. i. 190. Univ. Padua 25 Jan. 1646.H.F. Brown, Inglese e Scozzesi all’ Università di Padova (Venice, 1922), 154. m. (1) 15 July 1631 (with £8,000), Anne (d. 1634), da. and h. of John Banckes, mercer, of London, 1s. d.v.p. 1da.;Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as Remembrancia (1878), 319-20; Lipscomb, Buckingham, iii. 182. (2) by 1648, Mary Bressy (d. 1677), 5s. 8da.E. Waller, Poems (1711), pp. xviii-xix, lxxxi; Lipscomb, Buckingham, iii. 182. suc. fa. 1616.Lipscomb, Buckingham, iii. 182. d. 21 Oct. 1687.Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 274.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Bucks. 1633 – Nov. 1636, 16 Mar. 1641–?C231/5, p. 437; Coventry Docquets, 68; J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, ‘Additional docquets of commissions of the peace’, PH xxxii. 235. Dep. lt. by 1640–?CSP Dom. 1640, p. 498. Commr. oyer and terminer, Bucks. 23 June 1640;C181/5, f. 176v. array (roy.), 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642;A. and O. assessment, Bucks. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Mdx. 1664; Westminster 1672, 1677;SR. corporations, Bucks. 1662;HP Commons, 1660–1690. loyal and indigent officers, Mdx. 1662;SR. highways and sewers, London and Westminster 1662–3;C181/7, pp. 198, 214; Evelyn Diary ed. de Beer, iii. 319n. subsidy, Bucks. 1663.SR.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641.CJ ii. 288b. Commr. trade, Dec. 1655–1657, Nov. 1660–8; plantations, 30 July 1670 – 27 Sept. 1672; accounts [I], 1668; trade and plantations, 27 Sept. 1672–21 Dec. 1674.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 54; Officials of the Boards of Trade, 1660–1870 ed. J.C. Sainty (1974), 21, 23, 119

Academic: FRS, 1661.M. Hunter, The Royal Soc. and its Fellows 1660–1700 (1982), 168.

: Bucks., Beaconsfield.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, C. Johnson, 1629;Private colln. oil on canvas, aft. C. Johnson;Bodl. miniature, P. Oliver, 1635;Welbeck Abbey, Notts. oils. attrib. I. Fuller, 1640-50;Rousham House, Oxon. oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1665;Clarendon colln. oils, J. Riley, 1682;Private colln. oil on canvas, aft. J. Riley;NPG. oils, G. Kneller, 1684;Private colln. oil on canvas, attrib. G. Kneller;Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset. drawing, D. Loggan, 1685;NPG. drawing, G. White, 1710;BM. line engraving, P. Vanderbank aft. C. Johnson, 1682;BM; NPG. line engraving, P. Vanderbank aft. J. Riley, 1682.BM; NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WALLER, Edmund (1606-87), of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks.

Will

19 June 1686, cod. 7 July 1687, pr. 7 Nov. 1687.PROB11/389/101.

Estates

worth £2,000 p.a.;I.F.W. Beckett, Wanton Troopers (Barnsley, 2015), 8. inherited lands at Amersham and Beaconsfield, Bucks. from his father, 1616;PROB11/129/135. 1st earl of Newport alienated to him manor of Kidderminster, Worcs. 1634; Waller alienated some of those lands to others, 1637;Coventry Docquets, 657, 712. sold manor of Knotting, Beds. for £5,700, 1644;Bucks. RO, AR 93/2006/121-2. mortgaged manor of Beaconsfield, 1644.Bucks. RO, AR 93/2006/123.

Oxford 1644

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