DANVERS alias VILLIERS, Robert (1624-75), of Wycombe, Bucks. and Knighton, Rad.

Family and Education

b. and; bap. 20 Oct. 1624 (as Robert Wright), illegit. s. of Frances (bur. 4 June 1645), da. of Sir Edward Coke† and w. of John Villiers (d. 18 Feb. 1658), 1st Viscount Purbeck, with Sir Robert Howard* of Clun, Salop, and Audley End, Essex.J. Aubrey, Brief Lives ed. A. Clark (1898), ii. 97; Burke, Extinct Peerages, 558; ‘Sir Robert Howard’, Oxford DNB; St Giles, Cripplegate and St Mary the Virgin, Oxford par. regs. educ. travelled (France, Italy), bef. 1642.CCC 1075; CJ vii. 602b. m. 23 Nov. 1648, Elizabeth (b. 7 Apr. 1629, bur. 22 Aug. 1709), da. and coh. of Sir John Danvers* of West Lavington, Wilts. 2s. 4 da. (1 d.v.p.)Aubrey, Brief Lives, ii. 97; Burke, Extinct Peerages, 558-9. suc. mo. 1645; grandmo. (Lady Elizabeth Hatton), 1646.PROB11/200/312. summ. to Lords as Visct. Purbeck, 15 June 1660.HMC 5th Rep. 154; HMC 7th Rep. 110. d. 1675.

Offices Held

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) 15 June 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 47.

Diplomatic: ?envoy to Paris, May 1652.CCSP ii. 135.

Local: freeman, Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. 13 Apr. 1668.The First Ledger Book of High Wycombe ed. R.W. Greaves (Bucks. Rec. Soc. xi), 185.

: of Wycombe, Bucks. and Rad., Knighton.

VILLIERS

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

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DANVERS alias VILLIERS, Robert (1624-75), of Wycombe, Bucks. and Knighton, Rad.

Will

admon. (as Robert Danvers alias Villiers) 1676.Burke, Extinct Peerages, 559.

Estates

from 1645, interests in Stoke Poges, Bassetbury, Cippenham and other lands in Bucks.; land at Allerston, Yorks.; Pitsey and other manors in Essex;CCAM 669-70; CP (under Purbeck); CCC 1075; Lipscombe, Buckingham, iv. 549; VCH Bucks. iii. 174, 306-7, 310, 437n. from 1646, manor of Fakenham, Norf.;PROB11/200/312. from ?1653, Siluria, Knighton, Rad.;Burke, Extinct Peerages, 559; CSP Dom. 1660-1, p. 425. from 1655, moiety of manors Bradenstoke, Cleverton, Lea, Malmesbury, Westbury, Whitchurch, Wilts.;VCH Wilts. viii. 150; ix. 95; x. 139; xiv. 122, 139, 142. 1655-9, manor of West Lavington, Wilts.;VCH Wilts. vii. 200. 1655-1661, lands in Wilts. Northants. Som. and Mdx. forfeit by Sir John Danvers’ posth. attainder.Wilts. RO, 9/26/3.

Oxford 1644

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