RUDYARD (RUDYERD), Sir Benjamin (1572-1658), of Whitehall; later of West Woodhay, Berks.

Family and Education

b. 26 Dec. 1572, Le Neve, Mon. Angl. 1650-79, p. 60. 3rd s. of James Rudyard (d.1611) of Winchfield, Hants and Margery, da. and h. of Lawrence Kedwelly of Hartley Wintney, Hants. Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 141-2; VCH Hants, iv. 110. educ. Winchester; St. John’s, Oxf. 1588; New Inn; M. Temple 1590, called 1600; travelled abroad (Scotland) 1601, (Italy, Germany) 1610-13, 1614-17. Al. Ox.; MT Admiss.; MTR, 407; CSP Scot. 1597-1603, p. 900; SO3/4 (Jan. 1610); Life of Ld. Herbert of Cherbury ed. J.M. Shuttleworth, 73; CD 1628, iii. 18. m. c. May 1621, Elizabeth (bur. 22 Sept. 1625), da. of Sir Henry Harington† of Bagworth, Leics. and Baltinglass, co. Wicklow, 1s. 2da. Vis. Hants, 141-2; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 376; N and Q (ser. 10), xii. 333. Kntd. 1970. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 168. d. 31 May 1658. Le Neve, Mon. Angl. 1650-79, p. 60. sig. Benjamin Rudyard.

Offices Held

Gent. of privy chamber (extraordinary) ?by 1610–42. SO3/4 (Jan. 1610); SP16/58/71.

Surveyor of the liveries 1618–40. H.E. Bell, Ct. of Wards and Liveries.

Assoc. bencher, M. Temple 1619. MTR, 640.

Freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1621; Portsmouth Recs. ed. R. East, 348. j.p. Mdx. and Surr. 1625–42; C231/4, ff. 192–3; C231/5, pp. 532–3. commr. new buildings, London 1625, 1630, sewers, I.o.W. 1631, execution of ordinances, Berks. 1644, assessment 1644 – 48, militia 1648. T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 70; pt. 3, p. 144; C181/4, f. 89; A. and O. i. 455, 541, 961, 1079, 1234.

Commr. assembly of divines 1643 – 47, West Indies plantations 1643, Elector Palatine’s revenue 1645, heraldry abuses 1646, exclusion from sacrament 1646, scandalous offences 1648. A. and O. i. 181, 331, 785, 839, 853, 1208.

Parlimentarian

RUDYARD (RUDYERD), Sir Benjamin (1572-1658), of Whitehall; later of West Woodhay, Berks.

Main residences: Whitehall; West Woodhay, Berks.

RUDYERD

Author

V.C.D.M.

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

RUDYARD (RUDYERD), Sir Benjamin (1572-1658)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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