BLUNDELL, Sir Francis, 1st Bt. (1579-1625), of London and King’s Co. Ire.

Family and Education

b. 4 Sept. 1579,Cat. Ashmolean Mss, 119. 2nd s. of John Blundell, yeoman, of Great Linford, Bucks. and Catherine, da. and coh. of Roger Budoxshyde. Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 160-1; REQ 2/391/184. educ. Broadgates Hall, Oxf. 1596, BA (Christ Church) 1600, MA 1603; G. Inn 1618. Al. Ox.; GI Admiss. m. Joyce, da. of William Serjeant of Waldridge, Dinton, Bucks., 5s.; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 160-1. 1s. illegit. PROB 11/147, f. 269. Kntd. 30 Jan. 1618; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 167. cr. bt. 13 Oct. 1620. d. 26 Apr. 1625. CB, i. 224-5.

Offices Held

Surveyor-gen. of the exch. [I] 1610–17; Patentee Officers in Ire. ed. J.L.J. Hughes (Irish mss comm.), 13. sec. to Sir Ralph Winwood* by 1616–17; CSP Ire. 1615–25, pp. 50–1. remembrancer for Irish affairs 1617–22; C66/2132. commr. licensing pedlars 1617, inquiry, [I] 1622; C231/4, f. 39; C66/2135; V. Treadwell Buckingham and Ire. 191. v.-treas. [I] 1622–d. C66/2231, 2260; HMC 4th Rep. 277, 302, 373.

MP [I] 1613–15. R. Bagwell, Ire. under the Stuarts, 134.

Steward, Bury St. Edmunds abbey lands 1616–18; C66/2104; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 559. j.p. Westminster 1618–22. C181/2, f. 331v; C193/13/1.

Member, Africa Co. 1618, E.I. Co. by 1623. Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 99; CSP Col. E.I. 1622–4, p. 226.

Parlimentarian

BLUNDELL, Sir Francis, 1st Bt. (1579-1625), of London and King’s Co. Ire.

Main residences: London, King's Co. Ire, [I].

Author

A.D.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BLUNDELL, Sir Francis, 1st Bt. (1579-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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