Family and Education
b. c.1610, 5th surv. s. of Sir Thomas Wyndham (d. 1635) of Kentsford, Som. and Elizabeth, da. of Richard Coningsby;‘Mumford and Trent, Som.’, N. and Q. for Som. and Dorset, v. 268; E178/5970; CB iv. 57; H.A. Wyndham, A Fam. Hist. 1410-1688: The Wyndhams of Norf. and Som. (Oxford, 1939), pedigree. bro. of Edmund Wyndham*. educ. Univ. Padua Mar. 1635.I.A. Andrich, De Natione Anglica et Scota Iuristarum Universitatis Patavinae (Padua, 1892), 142. m. 1646, Anne (d. 1698), da. and coh. of Thomas Gerard of Trent, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da.Collinson, Som. ii. 387; iii. 492; ‘Mumford and Trent, Som.’, 268; CB iv. 57; Wyndham, Fam. Hist. 216. suc. uncle Sir Hugh Wyndham, 1663; cr. bt. 18 Nov. 1673.CB iv. 57. d. 15 July 1676.‘Mumford and Trent, Som.’, 268.
Offices Held

Central: jt. clerk of errors, k.b and exch. 1632 – 41, 1660–d.Coventry Docquets, 184.

Local: j.p. Som. 1643 – 46, July 1660–d.QS Recs. Som. Commonwealth, p. xx. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672; Dorset 1664, 1672;An Ordinance … for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, Som. 1660;SR. sewers, 19 Dec. 1660, 6 July 1670;C181/7, pp. 26, 556. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, Dorset, Som. 1663. 1666 – d.SR. Dep. lt. Som.; Dorset 1672–4.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. recusants, Som. 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Military: gov. (roy.) Dunster Castle, Som. June 1643-Apr. 1646.Clarendon, Hist. iii. 78; Bellum Civile, 48. Col. 1643–6.Bellum Civile, 47–8; P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers in Eng. and Wales (New York, 1981), 426. Maj. Royal Horse Gds. (The Blues) 1661–d.Dalton, Army Lists, i. 4.

: of Kentsford, St Decumans and Som., Trent.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WYNDHAM, Francis (c.1610-76), of Kentsford, St Decumans, and Trent, Som.

Will
8 Feb. 1676, pr. 11 Oct. 1676.PROB11/352/180.
Estates
inherited lands at Trent, Som. via his wife; Dorset estate of uncle Sir Hugh Wyndham, 1st bt. of Pilsdon, 1663.CB.
Oxford 1644
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