Family and Education
b. 1575, 1st s. of Thomas Wenman by Jane, da. of William West, 1st Baron Delaware. educ. ?Eton 1585; Oxf. Dec. 1587. m. (1) c.1595, Agnes (d.1617), da. of Sir George Fermor of Easton Neston, Northants., 4s. 5da.; (2) 1618, Anne or Alice, wid. of Thomas Roland and Robert Chamberlain; (3) Elizabeth (d.1629); (4) Mary (d.1638), da. and coh. of Thomas Keble of Essex. suc. fa. July 1577. Kntd. June 1596. cr. Baron Wenman [I] and Visct. Wenman [I] 30 July 1628.DNB; CP; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 179; F. G. Lee, Thame Church, 433-6, 439.
Offices Held
J.p.q. Oxon. by 1621, dep. lt. 1624, sheriff 1627–8.
Main residences: Thame Park, Oxon; Twyford, Bucks.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
WENMAN, Sir Richard (1573-1640)
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Oxford 1644
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