BYNG, Henry (1573-1635), of Grantchester, Cambs. and Gray’s Inn, London

Family and Education

b. 22 July 1573, 1st s. of Thomas Byng, DCL, of Hackney, Mdx., master of Clare, Camb. 1571-99, and Katherine, da. of Vincent Randell of Westminster, wid. of Thomas Flete of Biddenden, Kent; (?bro. of Thomas*). educ. Clare, Camb. 1589; G. Inn 1592, called 1599. m. 6 Jan. 1611, Katherine, da. of Thomas Clench* of Holbrook, Suff., 6s. (3 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1599.Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 32, 286; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxiv), 36; Al. Cant.; GI Admiss.; PBG Inn, i. 142; Add. 19105, f. 58; Grantchester par. reg. (Soc. Gen. transcript). d. 1 Mar. 1635. C142/524/83.

Offices Held

Fee’d counsel, King’s, Camb. 1606, W.R. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 345. Camb. Univ. 1632; HMC Cowper, i. 449. custos brevium, k.b. (jt.), 1608-at least 1610; N.H. Nicolas, Life of William Davison (1823), pp. 222–5. reader, Staple Inn 1609, G. Inn 1615; ancient, G. Inn 1609–23; PBG Inn, i. 187–8, 219. sjt.-at-law 1623–d. Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 181.

Steward, Sudbury 1614; Suff. RO (Bury St. Edmunds), Sudbury bor. ct. bk. 4, p. 418. commr. survey lands of Trin., Camb., Cambs. 1616, supervise property, 1631, sewers, Fens 1618 – 31, swans, Isle of Ely, Cambs. 1620, enclosure, Fens 1622 – 24, inquiry into revenue of Wye Coll., Kent 1622; C181/2, ff. 256v; 181/3, ff. 13, 49v, 78, 126v; 181/4, ff. 90v, 94; APC, 1618–19, p. 350. j.p. Cambs. 1625–d., C231/4, f. 183; C193/13/2. commr. Forced Loan, Cambs. 1627. C192/12/2, f. 5.

Parlimentarian

BYNG, Henry (1573-1635), of Grantchester, Cambs. and Gray’s Inn, London

Main residences: Grantchester, Cambs.; Gray's Inn, London.

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BYNG, Henry (1573-1635)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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