Henry Whitfield (1619–1688) was an English lawyer who moved to Ireland, where he was elected a member of the Irish House of Commons, and apparently had financial interests in Barbados.[1]

Life

Baptised on 17 June 1619 at the church of St Giles Cripplegate in London[2] and recorded as age 16 in the 1634 Visitation of London,[3] he was the second son of Sir Ralph Whitfield, a landowner, MP and prominent lawyer in London,[1] and his wife Dorothy, daughter of the antiquary Sir Henry Spelman. His elder brother was the lawyer and landowner Sir Herbert Whitfield.[1] In 1632 he was admitted at Gray's Inn, his father's inn of court, to study law and in 1635 he was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for a university education.[1] In 1646 at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less in London he married Hester, daughter of William Temple.[1] At some point he moved to Ireland, and by 1685 was MP for Trim.[4] Having made his will on 26 September 1688, which was later registered in Barbados where he presumably had financial interests,[5] he died in Dublin on 26 October 1688.[1] His wife outlived him, dying in 1696.

Family

Together, he and Hester had six known children:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Venn, J. A (1922–1954), Alumni Cantabrigienses, London, England: Cambridge University Press
  2. ^ Family Search Henry Whitfield, 17 June 1619, St Giles Cripplegate, London, FHL microfilm 380,199
  3. ^ George, Henry St (1880), Visitation of London 1634
  4. ^ a b c Ball, F. Elrington (1926), The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921, London: John Murray, ISBN 1-58477-428-2, retrieved 30 January 2017
  5. ^ Lancaster, Ida (11 March 2006), Henry Whitfield, retrieved 1 February 2017 I have the will of Henry Whitfield, of Dublin, and it is dated 26 Sept. 1688, and is recorded in Barbados. He mentions his eldest son, Temple, and another son Henry; his wife, Hester, a daughter, and others
  6. ^ Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, Sir William, A General Nomenclator and Obituary, with Reference to the Books Where the Persons are Mentioned, and Where Some Account of Their Character is to be Found, vol. 49((citation)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ a b William Page, ed. (1908), "Parishes:Rickmansworth", A History of the County of Hertford, vol. 2, London, pp. 371–386, retrieved 20 January 2017((citation)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Haughton, Brian (2011), Famous Ghost Stories: Legends and Lore, Rosen, ISBN 978-1448848409, retrieved 1 February 2017
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