Family and Education
b. c. 1612, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Knollys (d. 1638) of Grove Place, clerk-comptroller of the green cloth, and Katherine, da. of Sir Thomas Cornwallis of Portchester, groom-porter.Misc. Gen. et Herald. ii. 19-20; Vis. Hants and I.o.W. (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 46-7. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 7 Aug. 1628, BA 1632, MA 1635;Al. Cant.; Admiss. to Peterhouse ed. T.A. Walker (c.1912), 37. I. Temple, 17 Mar. 1636.I. Temple database. m. bef. 1654, Anne (bap. 5 Mar. 1616), da. of William Duncombe of Battlesden, Beds., wid. of Sir William Crayford (bur. 29 Jan. 1636) of Beckerings Park, Ridgmont, Beds. 1s. 4da.PROB11/360/185; Vis. Hants and I.o.W. 47; Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 178-9, 204, 408. suc. bro. betw. 22 May-29 July 1648.PROB11/205/192. bur. 3 June 1679.Westminster Abbey Reg. (Harl. Soc. x), 197.
Offices Held

Academic: fell. Peterhouse, Camb. 1634–6.Al. Cant.

Local: j.p. Hants July 1652 – bef.Mar. 1657, 23 Apr. 1659 – d.; Dorset, Wilts. Apr. 1675–d.C231/6, p. 431; C231/7, p. 494; C193/13/4, f. 87; A Perfect List (1660), 49. Commr. assessment, Hants 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Southampton 1677;SR. militia, Hants 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. corporations, 1662–3;HMC 11th Rep. III, 55. subsidy, 1663.SR. Verderer, New Forest by 1667–d.CTB ii. 91. Commr. sewers, Hants 25 July 1671.C181/7, p. 584. Sub-commr. prizes, Portsmouth 1672–4.CSP Dom. 1673, pp. 344–5. Commr. wastes and spoils, New Forest 1673, 1676;CTB iv. 124; v. 303. recusants, Hants 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Civic: burgess, Southampton 24 Dec. 1658;Southampton RO, SC3/1/1, f. 222v. Portsmouth 1672.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 360.

Central: commr. sick and wounded seamen, 1673–4.Add 5752, f. 75; CTB v. 733; CSP Dom. 1672–3, p. 530.

: of Grove Place, Nursling, Hants.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KNOLLYS, Thomas (c.1612-79), of Grove Place, Nursling, Hants

Will
5 Nov. 1678, pr. 1 July 1679.PROB11/360/185; Hants. RO, 23M58/157.
Estates
notionally received £1,200 by his fa.’s will, 1638. Manor of Bowcombe, I.o.W. following death of his bro. 1648. Grove Place and manors of Nutshelling, Milbrooke, Swathling, Eling, Romsey, Southwells, following d. of his mo. 1674.PROB11/178/419; PROB11/205/192; CCAM 758-9; CCC 1065. Leases from New College, Oxford, of Woodperry farm, Woodperry tither and meadows and woods in Stanton St John, Oxon.PROB11/360/185.
Oxford 1644
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