DEVEREUX, Walter (c.1591-1641), of Lamphey, Pemb., Essex House, The Strand, Westminster and Chartley, Staffs.

b. c. 1591, illegit. s. of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (exec. 1601) and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Southwell of Woodrising, Norf.; half-bro. of Michael Molyns*. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1604; riding academy, Angers, France 1608; ?M. Temple 1618. unm. Kntd. 2 Sept. 1617.Al. Ox.; ‘Les Gentilshommes Etrangers ... a l’academie d’equitation d’Angers au xviie siecle’, Revue d’Anjou, xxvi. 12; M. Temple Admiss.; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 165. bur. 24 July 1641. WCA, St. Clement Danes par. reg. vol. 2, unfol. sig. W[alter] D’evreux.