GREVILLE, Robert (1607-1643), of Beauchamp’s Court, Alcester, Warws.

Family and Education

b. c. 1607,Aged 36 in 1643: ibid. 191. 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Fulke Greville of Thorpe Latimer, Lincs. and Mary, da. of Christopher Copley of Wadworth, Yorks. R.E.L. Strider, Robert Greville, Lord Brooke, 5; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. lxii), 9. educ. Camb., MA 1629; Ath. Ox. ii. 432; Al. Cant. Leiden 1624; travelled abroad 1624-7 (Neths., France, Switzerland, Italy, Savoy). E. Peacock, Eng. Speaking Students at Leyden Univ. 43; APC, 1623-5, p. 201; ‘Genealogie, Life and Death of ... Robert Lorde Brooke’ ed. P. Styles, Dugdale Soc. xxxi. 170-1. m. settlement 19 Feb. 1630, WARD 7/99/81. Katherine (d.1676), da. of Sir Francis Russell*, 4th earl of Bedford, 5s. suc. cousin, Sir Fulke Greville*, 1st Lord Brooke as 2nd Lord Brooke 30 Sept. 1628, fa. 1632. d. 2 Mar. 1643. Vis. Warws. 9; CP, ii. 333; PROB 11/162, f. 363v-4.

Offices Held

Freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1629; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 350. commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1629-at least 1642, C181/3, f. 258; 181/5, f. 220. j.p. Warws. 1630 – at least40, Mdx. 1641–2, C231/5, pp. 35, 437, 533; C66/2859. commr. swans, Staffs.,Warws. 1635, 1638, C181/4, f. 199v; 181/5, f. 90. ld. lt. (parl.), Warws. and Coventry 1642–d. CJ, ii. 426a; HMC 5th Rep. 90.

Member, Providence Is. Co. 1630-at least 1638. CSP Col. 1574–1660, pp. 122, 263.

Commr. Treaty of Ripon 1640. HMC 8th Rep. ii. 57.

Col. of ft. and horse (parl.), 1642–d. A. Hughes, Pols. Soc. and Civil War in Warws. 148.

Recorder, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, Warws. by d. ‘Genealogie’, 191.

Parlimentarian

GREVILLE, Robert (1607-1643), of Beauchamp’s Court, Alcester, Warws.

Main residence: Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, Warws.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

GREVILLE, Robert (c.1607-1643)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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