LOWNDES, William (1652-1724), of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx.; Winslow and Chesham, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. 1 Nov. 1652, yr. s. of Robert Lowndes (d. 1683) of Winslow, by Elizabeth, da. of Peter Fitzwilliams. educ. free sch. Buckingham. m. (1) 26 Oct. 1679, Elizabeth (d. 1680), da. of Sir Roger Harsnett of Dulwich, Kent, Treasury serjeant, 1s.; (2) 25 Nov. 1683, Jane (d. 1685), da. of Simon Hopper of Richmond, Surr., 1da. (d.v.p.); (3) 12 July 1686, Elizabeth (d. 1689), da. of Rev. Richard Martyn DD, 1s. 1da. (d.v.p.); (4) 29 Nov. 1691, Rebecca (d. 1742), da. of John Shales, auditor of Exchequer 1678–95, 7s. (5 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.). Bucks. RO, Lowndes mss D/LO/5/12, family pedigree 1066–1868; D/LO/6/18/1, Lowndes’s family notes; DNB; S. B. Baxter, Treasury, 209; Mar. Lic. Vicar-Gen. (Harl. Soc. xxx), 9, 151; PRO, Lists, ‘Exchequer Offrs.’, 131.

Offices Held

Clerk, Treasury c. 1675, chief clerk 1689, sec. 1695– June 1711, senior sec. June 1711–d.; serjeant-at-arms, Treasury 1682; agent for taxes 1685–?89. Cal. Treas. Bks. vii. 724; viii. 78–79.

Surveyor of the blowing houses, Cornw. and Devon 1679; king’s waiter, port of London 1680. Ibid. v. 1285, 1288; vi. 630, 753.

Commr. Million Act 1694, for Greenwich Hosp. 1695–1704, taking subscriptions to land bank 1696, taking subscriptions to South Sea Co. 1711. Ibid. x. 553; Add. 10120, f. 233; CJ, xii. 509; Pittis, Present Parl. 350.

Freeman, Seaford 1695. E. Suss. RO, SEA 7, Seaford ct. bk. p. 65.

Parlimentarian

LOWNDES, William (1652-1724), of Chesham, Bucks.

Main residences: St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Mdx.; Winslow and Chesham, Bucks.

Author

A.A.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

LOWNDES, William (1652-1724)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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