MELLER (MILLER), Sir Robert (c.1564-1624), of Little Bredy, Dorset and Westminster

Family and Education

b. c. 1564, 1st s. of John Meller of Winterbourne Came, Dorset and Anne, da. of Giles Winterhay of Chetnole, Dorset.Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 186. educ. I. Temple 1579. I. Temple database of admiss. m. (1) 3 Aug. 1584, Dorothy (d. 15 Oct. 1591), da. and h. of Henry Bailey of I.o.W., 1s.; (2) Margaret (d. 11 Oct. 1632), da. of Robert Freke of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, teller of the Exch. 1571-92, 1s. 1da. Dorset Par. Regs. ii. 2; Hutchins, ii. 186, 290; William Whiteway of Dorchester (Dorset Rec. Soc. xii), 125. suc. fa. 1595; Hutchins, ii. 186. Kntd. 23 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 124. d. 1 Sept. 1624. William Whiteway of Dorchester, 64.

Offices Held

Recvr.-gen., Exch. Som. and Dorset 1589–97; SO3/1, f. 181v; HMC Sackville, i. 104. j.p. Dorset 1597–d., C231/1, f. 28. capt. militia ft. 1598, Som. and Dorset N and Q, ii. 313. sheriff 1599–1600, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes, (PRO, L. and I. ix), 39. commr. piracy 1605, 1611, 1622; C181/1, f. 114; 181/2, f. 159; 181/3, f. 72v. freeman, Lyme Regis, Dorset 1608; Dorset RO, B7/B6/11, p. 9. commr. subsidy, Dorset 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–1, 23. sewers 1617, oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1618–d. C181/2, ff. 294, 313v; 181/3, f. 118v.

Member, Virg. Co. 1610. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 342.

Parlimentarian

MELLER (MILLER), Sir Robert (c.1564-1624), of Little Bredy, Dorset and Westminster

Main residences: Little Bredy, Dorset; Westminster.

Miller

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MELLER (MILLER), Sir Robert (c.1564-1624)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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