Family and Education
b. c. 1594, 3rd s. of Edward Kirkham (d. 1617), yeoman of the revels, of The Savoy, Mdx.; bro. of Robert Kirkham†. educ. Westminster Sch. king’s scholar, 1609;Rec. of Old Westminsters, i. 541; M. Temple Admiss. i. 99; ‘Robert Kirkham’, HP Commons 1604-1629; E.K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (2009), 96, 99. Broadgates Hall, Oxf. 18 June 1610, ‘aged 16’;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 13 Jan. 1613.M. Temple Admiss. i. 99; MTR 558. m. 11 June 1633, Elizabeth Cronen, at least 1s. d.v.p. 2 da. (1 )St Mary Magdalene, Richmond and Mortlake, Surr. par. regs.; PROB11/198/321. suc. bro. Nov. 1638.‘Robert Kirkham’, HP Commons 1604-1629. bur. 24 Nov. 1646 24 Nov. 1646.St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, par. reg.
Offices Held
Household: servant to William Cecil, 2nd earl of Salisbury, c. 1627; steward, Sept. 1631 – Mar. 1634, 1643 – 44; recvr.-gen. 1633–d.
: of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. and Surr., Richmond.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
KIRKHAM, Roger (c.1594-1646), of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. and Richmond, Surr.
Will
25 May 1645, pr. 30 Nov. 1646.PROB11/198/321.
Estates
bought house at Cheshunt, Herts. ?sold bef. d.;HMC Hatfield, xxii, pp. 381-2; PROB11/198/321. from 1638, house and land at Richmond, Surr.‘The parliamentary surveys of Richmond, Wimbledon and Nonsuch’, Surr. Arch. Coll. v. 92-3, 101; J. Cloake, Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew (2001), 61, 63, 163.
Oxford 1644
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