WENTWORTH, Sir George I (1609-66), of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.

Family and Education

bap. 20 July 1609, 8th s. of Sir William Wentworth (bur. 10 Sept. 1614), 1st bt., of Wentworth Woodhouse, and Anne (bur. 23 July 1611), da. of Sir Robert Atkins of Stowell, Glos.Foster, Yorks. Peds. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 8 Dec. 1626, MA 1 Nov. 1642.Al. Ox. m. c. Jan. 1636, Frances (d. bef. 6 Sept. 1671), da. and coh. of Sir Francis Ruishe of Sarre, Kent, 3s. 3da. (2 d.v.p.).Foster, Yorks. Peds.; R. M. Milnes, ‘Wentworth Woodhouse and its owners’, YAJ vi. 377-8. Kntd. 25 July 1633;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 202. d. c. July 1666.NLI, GO 142, p. 108.

Offices Held

Irish: MP, Bandonbridge, co. Cork 1634; Kildare, co. Kildare 1640 – Mar. 1641, 21 June 1642–?CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 63 CJ Ire. i. 199, 297. PC, 22 Mar. 1640-c.Aug. 1647, 19 Dec. 1660–d.CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 236; 1660–2, p. 142; Strafforde Letters, ii. 395–6. Commr. assessment, co. Meath 1 Mar. 1661.A Census of Ireland c.1659 ed. S. Pender, 641.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army in Ireland, c.1638-June 1647;Strafforde Letters, ii. 204; HMC Ormonde, i. 125–6, 178; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 643; 1660–2, pp. 44, 158. maj. by 23 Apr. 1640-c.Aug. 1641.Bodl. Carte 1, f. 184v. Provost marshal, Leinster by 1640 – June 1647, by 1661–d.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 643; 1661–2, pp. 44, 158; HMC Ormonde, n.s. iii. 409. V.-adm. Leinster by June 1665–?d.Bodl. Carte 34, f. 249.

Local: recvr. recusant fines, northern cos. Apr. 1641-c.1644, by Nov. 1660–d.SO3/12, f. 142v; E351/433; CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 497; 1660–1, p. 367.

: of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WENTWORTH, Sir George I (1609-66), of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.

Will

6 July 1655, cod. 3 July 1666, pr. 10 Sept. 1666.NLI, GO 142, p. 108.

Estates

in 1635, Visct. Wentworth settled lands at Maynooth and Naas near Dublin on Wentworth, worth £500 p.a.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P8/159-61, 192-3. By his marriage, acquired manor of Sarre and Cleve-Court, Monkton, Kent.Hasted, Kent, x. 251, 257. In 1638, acquired a third part of a farm near Sarre in reversion.C54/3778/27. By December 1649, he was reportedly ‘very much in debt’.CCAM, 435.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Dame Street and St George’s Lane, Dublin (1644-6).HMC Ormonde, i. 153.

Religion

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