NORRIS, Richard (1670-1730), of Water Street, Liverpool, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. 1670, 6th s. of Thomas Norris of Speke, Lancs. by Katherine, da. of Sir Henry Garway or Garraway, of Broad Street, London, ld. mayor 1639-40; bro. of Edward†, Thomas* and William Norris*. m. (w. d. 1698), s.p. suc. bro. Edward at Speke 1726. Norris Pprs. (Chetham Soc. ser. 1, ix), pp. xx–xxi; Baines, Lancs. ed. Croston v. 61; VCH Lancs. iii. 136; H. Peet, Liverpool in Reign of Q. Anne, 56.

Offices Held

Freeman, Liverpool 1693, bailiff 1695–6, common council 1695–d., merchant appraiser 1697, mayor 1700–1, alderman by 1701–d., deputy mayor 1707; burgess, Wigan 1707; sheriff, Lancs. 1718–19. Liverpool RO, Norris mss 920NOR 2/38, Norris to Benjamin Weston, 5 May 1693; R. Muir and E. M. Platt, Hist. Mun. Govt. Liverpool, 259; Norris Pprs. p. xx; Wigan RO, Wigan bor. recs. AB/MR/10.

Sub-commr. of prizes, Portsmouth Nov. 1707; commr. for managing lottery 1712, 1714. Cal. Treas. Bks. xxi. 504; Add. 70155, list of lottery commrs. 1710–14.

Parlimentarian

NORRIS, Richard (1670-1730), of Water Street, Liverpool, Lancs.

Main residence: Water Street, Liverpool, Lancs.

Author

E.C.

R.D.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

NORRIS, Richard (1670-1730)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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