ROBSON, John (c.1581-1645), of Morpeth and Whalton, Northumb.; later of Durham, co. Dur.

Family and Education

b. c. 1581, s. of Robert Robson (d. by 1607), rect. of Warcop, Westmld. educ. Appleby sch. Westmld. (Reginald Bainbrigg); Queen’s, Oxf. 1598, BA (St. Edmund Hall, Oxf.) 1602, MA 1605, incorp. Camb. 1607. m. by 1621, Margaret, da. of John Cradock, chan. of Durham dioc., 2s. (1 d.v.p.). ordained 1605 or 1606. bur. 12 Apr. 1645 12 Apr. 1645.Al. Ox.; Al. Cant.; J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll. i. 198; Regs. Durham Cathedral (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxiii), 86, 93. sig. Jo[hn] Robson.

Offices Held

Fell. Caius, Camb. 1608. Venn, i. 198.

Rect. Morpeth 1610 – c.43, Whalton 1614–d.; IND 1/17000, f. 207; J. Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy (1714), pt. 2, p. 19; Al. Cant. member, York convocation from 1614; Recs. of Convocation ed. G. Bray, xiv. 465. chaplain to Jas. I by 1620; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 174. preb. Durham cathedral 1623–d. J. Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, xi comp. J.M. Horn, D.M. Smith and P. Mussett, 98.

Member, High Commission, York prov. 1620-at least 1639, Rymer, vii. pt. 3, p. 174; viii. pt. 1, p. 91; pt. 2, p. 198; Acts of High Commn. Ct. within Durham Diocese ed. W.H.D. Longstaffe (Surtees Soc. xxxiv), 258, 273. commr. sewers, co. Dur. 1630, C181/4, f. 58. j.p. Northumb. and co. Dur. 1630-at least 1640. C231/5, pp. 36, 38; C66/2859.

Parlimentarian

ROBSON, John (c.1581-1645), of Morpeth and Whalton, Northumb.; later of Durham, co. Dur.

Main residences: Morpeth; Whalton, Northumb.; Durham, co. Dur.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ROBSON, John (c.1581-1645)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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