MORTON, Sir Albertus (c.1584-1625), of Cannon Row, Westminster.

Family and Education

b. c. 1584, 4th s. of George Morton† (d. c.1613) of East Stour, Chilham, Kent and Mary, da. of Robert Honeywood of Henewood, Postling, Kent. Top. and Gen. i. 400. educ. Eton Coll. Bucks. 1596; Westminster sch. (king’s scholar); King’s Camb. 1602, aged 18, fell. 1605-18, BA 1607, MA 1610; G. Inn 1625. Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry; Recs. of Old Westminsters comp. G.F. Russell Barker and A.H. Stenning, ii. 663; Al. Cant.; GI Admiss. m. 13 Jan. 1625, Memorials of St. Margaret’s Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 332. Elizabeth (admon. 29 Dec. 1626), da. of Sir Edward Apsley of Thackham, Suss., s.p. Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 8. Kntd. 29 Sept. 1617. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 166. d. 6 Sept. 1625. CSP Dom. 1625-6, p. 100. sig. Alb[ertus] or Albertus Morton.

Offices Held

Sec. (jt.) to amb. to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton*, 1603 – 11, 1612 – 13, to Electress Palatine 1616 – 19; agent, Savoy 1613 – 15, protestant princes of the Union 1617 – 21; clerk (extraordinary), Privy Council 1614 – 19, (ordinary) 1619 – 23; member, Privy Council and sec. of state, 9 Feb. 1625 – d.; amb. (extraordinary), Utd. Provinces 1625. APC, 1613–14, p. 661; 1621–3, p. 387; 1623–5, p. 453; CSP Dom. 1619–23, p. 34; 1625–6, p. 2; Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 141, 197, 229, 289.

Patentee, soap-boiling [I] by 1624;APC, 1623–5, pp. 336, 350. commr. to compound for defective titles 1625, trade 1625.

Commr. new buildings, London 1625. T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, pp. 32, 59, 70.

Parlimentarian

MORTON, Sir Albertus (c.1584-1625), of Cannon Row, Westminster.

Main residence: Cannon Row, Westminster.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MORTON, Sir Albertus (c.1584-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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