WINCH, Humphrey (c.1555-1625), of Everton, Beds.

Family and Education

b. c. 1555, s. of John Winch (d.1582), of Northill. educ. St. John’s Camb. 1570; L. Inn 1573, called 1581. m. Cicely, da. of Richard Onslow, 2s. 3da. (1s. 2da. d.v.p.). Kntd. 1606.

Offices Held

Dep. recorder, Bedford prob. c. 1593, certainly by 1596 – 1604; j.p. Beds. from c. 1601; bencher, L. Inn 1595, Autumn reader 1597, censor 1600, keeper of the black book 1603, treasurer 1605 – 06; serjeant-at-law, chief baron of Exchequer [I] 1606; c.j. King’s bench [I] 1608 – 11; j.c.p. (England) 1611 – d.; member, council in the marches of Wales 1623–d.DNB; Foss, Judges, vi. 201–2; Beds. N. and Q. i. 216; F. A. Blaydes, Gen. Bed. 306, 356, 360, 420, 439; OR, i. 442; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 334; L. Inn Black Bks. passim.

Parlimentarian

WINCH, Humphrey (1554/5-1625), of Everton, Beds. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residence: Everton, Beds.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

WINCH, Humphrey (c.1555-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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