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bap. 15 Jan. 1634, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Hanmer*, 2nd bt. and 1st w. Elizabeth (d. c.1644), da. of Sir Thomas Baker of Whittingham Hall, Fressingfield, Suff., maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria.Hanmer par. reg. educ. abroad (France and Portugal) 1644-51.Infra, ‘Sir Thomas Hanmer’; Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 128. m. 2 June 1659, Mary (d. 11 Dec. 1709), da. and h. of Joseph Alston of Washbrooke, Suff., 1da. d.v.p. St Gregory by St Paul, London, par. reg.; W.H. Birch, ‘Some Suff. church notes’, East Anglian, n.s. xii. 366; Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 131. Kntd. 9 Aug. 1660;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 231. suc. fa. as 3rd bt. 6 Oct. 1678. bur. 12 Aug. 1701 12 Aug. 1701.Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 112, 131.
Offices Held

Local: commr. assessment, Flint 29 May 1656, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1666, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Denb. 29 May 1656; Suff. 1660, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689; Worcs. 1672, 1677. 1660 – 11 June 1680An Order and Declaration (1656, E.1065.7); A. and O.; SR. J.p. Flint Mar., 20 Aug. 1680–19 Sept. 1691;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 120, 124. Suff. by Oct. 1660–80. Commr. poll tax, 1660; Flint 1666.SR. Kpr. of the game, N. Wales Dec. 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 431; 1700–2, p. 512. Capt. militia horse, Flint c.1661-aft. 1684.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 145; T. Dineley [Dingley], An Account of the Progress of his Grace Henry the first Duke of Beaufort through Wales, 1684 ed. C. Baker, 88. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, Suff. 1662; subsidy, Flint 1663, 1689.SR. Sheriff, Glos. 1664–5.CSP Dom. 1664–5, p. 96. Commr. recusants, Worcs. 1675.CTB iv. 698. Dep. lt. Flint June 1685–d.CSP Dom. 1685, p. 189; 1687–9, p. 152; 1700–2, p. 256.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, c.June 1660–?LC3/2, f. 9.

Military: : capt. of horse, regt. of Charles, 1st Baron Gerard, Nov. 1662-aft. July 1666;CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 577; 1665–6, p. 557. capt. of ft. regt. of 2nd duke of Buckingham by May 1673–?;CSP Dom. 1673, p. 215. capt. of ft. Ireland by Jan. 1678–?;HMC Ormonde, ii. 210, 215. lt.-col. c.June 1685-at least Dec. 1688;CSP Dom. 1685, p. 214; Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 126. col. by Apr. 1689–d.;CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 48; 1700–2, p. 511. brig. 25 Sept. 1689–d.CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 57; 1700–2, p. 328. Gov. Cork by Mar. 1692–?CTB ix. 1664; CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 338.

Irish: commr. revenue inspection, Mar. 1676-c.1680.CTB v. 180; HMC Ormonde, n.s. v. 493–4. PC, July 1695–d.CSP Dom. 1695, p. 5. MP, Carlingford, co. Louth 1695–9.HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Sir John Hanmer’.

: of Hanmer, Flint and Suff., Whittingham Hall.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, J. Riley, bef. 1691.Whereabouts unknown.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HANMER, John (1634-1701), of Hanmer, Flint, and Whittingham Hall, Fressingfield, Suff.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1660 his estate was valued (presumably in expectancy) at about £3,000 p.a.P. Jenkins, ‘Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak’, NLWJ xxiv. 345.
Oxford 1644
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