UNTON, Henry (c.1558-96), of Wadley, Berks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1558, 2nd s. of Sir Edward Unton of Wadley by Lady Anne Seymour (d.1588), da. of Edward, Duke of Somerset, wid. of John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick; bro. of Edward. educ. Oriel, Oxf. supp. BA Oct. 1573; M. Temple 1575. m. 1580, Dorothy (d.1634), da. of Thomas Wroughton of Broad Hinton, Wilts., s.p. suc. bro. 1589. Kntd. 1586.

Offices Held

Keeper of Cornbury park, Oxon. 1583, j.p.q. from c. 1583, dep. lt. 1587 – 93, j.p. and dep. lt. Berks. from 1593; capt. under Leicester in Netherlands 1586, of Berkshire horse 1588; ambassador to France July 1591 – May 1592, Dec. 1595–d.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvii), 223; C142/227/222; CSP For. 1582, p. 87; Leycester Corresp. (Cam. Soc. xxvii), 416; Archaeologia, xcix. 56, 70, 73; APC, xvi. 201; xxiv. 31; CSP Dom. 1591–4, pp. 36, 242; Birch, Mems. i. 342.

Parlimentarian

UNTON, Henry (c.1558-96), of Wadley, Berks.

Main residence: Wadley, Berks.

Notes

Unless otherwise stated this biography is based upon J. G. Nichols, Unton Inventories and Unton Corresp. (Roxburghe Club lxiii).

Author

A.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

UNTON, Henry (c.1558-96)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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