BULKELEY, Richard (1606-1640), of Beaumaris and Baron Hill, Llanfaes, Anglesey
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Family and Education
b. 11 June 1606, 1st s. of Sir Richard Bulkeley (d.1624) of Baron Hill and Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Wilsford* of Ilding, Kent.NLW, 9080E, p. 69; D. Lysons, Environs of London iv. 527; J.E. Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams. 42.educ. G. Inn 1626.GI Admiss.m. 16 July 1622, Dorothy, da. of John Hill, ?innkeeper of Honiley, Warws. s.p.Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 330; Griffith, 42; Vis. Leics. (Harl. Soc. ii), 170-1; R. Lockyer, Buckingham, 72-3; NLW, 9080E, p. 39; SP16/378/10.suc. grandfa. Sir Richard Bulkeley* in Anglesey and Caern. estate 1621. STAC 8/76/3.d. 5 Mar. 1640. C142/600/123.sig. Rich[ard] Bulkeley. Bulkeley probably signed himself this way to avoid confusion with his distant relative Richard Bulkeley of Porthamel, who signed himself ‘Richard Bulkley’.
Offices Held
Dep. lt. Anglesey ?1624–d.; NLW, Carreglwyd I/114. This may have been Richard Bulkeley of Porthamel, a deputy lieutenant in 1621 (ibid. I/147). The MP was serving at his death, see NLW, 1595E, f. 334v. j.p. Anglesey and Caern. 1626–d.;JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 9–12, 27–30. commr. subsidy arrears, Anglesey 1626 – 27, subsidy 1628, charitable uses, Anglesey and Caern. 1630, knighthood fines, Caern. 1630; E179/224/598, ff. 1, 4; 179/219/19, 22; C192/1, unfol.; NLW, 9062E/1545. feoffee, Beaumaris free sch. 1632–d.; Anglesey RO, David Hughes Charity mss box 16 (3 Oct. 1632; n.d. [?1649]). mayor, Beaumaris 1634–5; Ibid. 12 Aug. 1635. commr. St. Paul’s cathedral repair, Anglesey 1637; GL, ms 25475/1, f. 89v. capt. militia horse, Anglesey by 1637; HEHL, EL7443. sheriff 1638–9.List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 237.
Sewer of Chamber, extraordinary 1629–d. LC5/132, pp. 158, 163; LC3/1, unfol.