Family and Education
b. c. 1622, 1st s. of William Whitaker of Shaftesbury by Honor, da. of Thomas Hooper of Boveridge. educ. M. Temple, entered 1636, called 1645; Gloucester Hall, Oxf. 1637. m. Mary, da. of Narcissus Mapowder of Holsworthy, Devon and coh. to her bro. Anthony, 1s. 5da. suc. fa. 1646.Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. cxvii), 75; C10/495/215.
Offices Held
Recorder, Shaftesbury 1653 – 84; commr. for assessment, Dorset 1657, Jan. 1660–80, j.p. Mar. 1660–83, commr. for corporations, Dorset 1662 – 63, foreshore 1662; freeman, Lyme Regis 1662; commr. for recusants, Dorset 1675.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Motcombe, Dorset.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
WHITAKER, Henry (c.1622-95)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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