MAINWARING, Philip (c.1589-1661), of London

Family and Education

b. c. 1589, 7th but 4th surv. s. of Sir Randle Mainwaring (d. 1612) of Over Peover, Cheshire by 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Edward Fitton† of Gawsworth, Cheshire.Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 157-8; (xciii), 74-75; G. Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 482-3. educ. G. Inn 1609; Brasenose, Oxf. 1610, aged 21, BA 1613. GI Admiss.; Al. Ox. unm. Kntd. 1634. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 202. d. 21 Aug. 1661. Ormerod, i. 483. sig. Ph[ilip] Mainwaring.

Offices Held

Servant to James I by 1609, cupbearer by 1621–?34. C66/1829; Loseley Mss ed. A.J. Kempe, 424; Strafforde Letters (1739) ed. W. Knowler, i. 263.

Sec. to amb. Sir George Chaworth*, Brussels 1621. SP77/14, ff. 551–2.

Farmer of wine licences, Devon and Cornw. 1630–40. APC, 1630–1, p. 30

Sec. of state [I] 1634 – 41, 1660 – d.; PC [I] 1634 – 41, 1660 – d.; commr. defective titles [I] 1638. Strafforde Letters, i. 263; CSP Ire. 1633–47, pp. 130, 185; 1660–2, pp. 142, 250.

MP [I] 1634 – 35, 1640–1. H. Kearney, Strafford in Ireland, 239–40, 261.

Treas.-at-war (roy.) 1642–6. HMC Var. iii. 215–16.

Parlimentarian

MAINWARING, Philip (c.1589-1661), of London

Main residence: London.

Author

V.C.D.M.

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MAINWARING, Philip (c.1589-1661)