Henry Wilmot MP (bef. 1613 - 1658)

Born before 26 Oct 1613 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Morton) Wilmot — married 21 Aug 1633 (to about 1644) in St Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1658 after age 44 in Sluys, Belgium

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Henry Wilmot was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Henry Wilmot third son of Charles Wilmot and his wife, Sarah Anderson, was baptised at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster on the 26th of October 1613. ^[1]

He married Frances Morton at St Luke's Church in Chelsea on the 21st of August 1633. ^[2] She was mother of his son, Charles.

His second wife was Anne St. John, daughter of Sir John St John Bart. and his wife, Anne Leighton, and widow of Sir Francis Lee, Bart. They were married around 1644, the time when Henry succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Wilmot. Anne was mother of Henry's son, John.

He was an advisor to King Charles II during his exile, and was created 1st Earl of Rochester in 1652.

Henry died on the 19th of February 1657/58 at Ghent.

Sources

1. ↑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms (St Martin-In-The-Fields 26 Oct 1613 Henri Wilmot son of Caroli Wilmot
2. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (St Luke, Chelsea 21 Aug 1633 Henry Willmott married Frances Morton)

• Wikipedia: Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester

• Thepeerage.com: Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester Cites: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, page 45.

• Ronald Hutton, ‘Wilmot, Henry, first earl of Rochester (bap. 1613, d. 1658)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 Aug 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 62 Wilmot, Henry by Charles Harding Firth