PARKHURST, Robert (1603-1651), of Cheapside, London; later of Broad Street, London and Pyrford, Surr.

Family and Education

bap. 5 July 1603, St. Mary le Bowe (Harl. Soc. Reg. xliv), 16. 1st s. of Sir Robert Parkhurst, alderman of London, of Broad Street and Eleanor, da. of William Babington of Chorley, Surr. Vis. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 97; H.F. Waters, Gen. Gleanings in Eng. 1391. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1619, BA 1622; I. Temple 1621. Al. Ox.; I. Temple database of admiss. m. (1) (settlement 2 May 1628) Elizabeth (bur. 13 Sept. 1638), da. of Sir Henry Baker, 1st bt., of Sissinghurst, Kent, 2s. 2da.; (2) 6 June 1642, Silence, da. of Sir Thomas Crewe* of Steane, Northants., 1s. suc. fa. 1636; C142/543/21; Baker, Northants. 288; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 353. Kntd. 29 Apr. 1638. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 205. d. 21 Aug. 1651. Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 50.

Offices Held

Freeman, Guildford, Surr. 1625; Surr. Hist. Cent. BR/OC/1/2, f. 95. j.p. Surr. 1634–d.; C231/5, p. 138; Names of the JPs (1650), p. 55. commr. Wey navigation, Surr. 1635, T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 19. subsidy, Surr. 1641–2, SR, v. 65, 155. assessment 1643–8; A. and O. i. 94, 636, 976, 1093. dep. lt. Surr. 1642; CJ, ii. 584a. commr. sequestration, Surr. 1643, levying money 1643, defence 1643–5, A. and O. i. 116, 234, 335, 731. oyer and terminer 1644, gaol delivery 1644, C181/5, f. 239-v. New Model Ordinance 1645. A. and O. i. 624.

Commr. defence of Ireland 1642. Harl. 1332, f. 1.

Parlimentarian

PARKHURST, Robert (1603-1651), of Cheapside, London; later of Broad Street, London and Pyrford, Surr.

Main residences: Cheapside, London; Broad Street, London; Pyrford, Surr.

Author

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

PARKHURST, Robert (1603-1651)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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