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WILLIAMSON, SIR JOSEPH, second son of Rev. Joseph Williamson, Vicar of Bridekirk, Cumberland; bapt. 4 Aug 1633; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 16) 1650; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, bateller, matr. 18 Nov 1650; BA 2 Feb 1653/4; MA 1657 (incorp. Cambridge 1659); DCL 1674; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. 1657- Dec 1678; Under-Secretary, Secretary of State’s Office Jul 1660 – Sep 1674; Keeper of State Papers from 31 Dec 1661; Secretary to Sir Henry Bennet (afterwards 1st Earl of Arlington) (qv) 1662; adm. and called to bar, Middle Temple 25 Nov 1664; editor, The London Gazette, of which the first number was published 5 Feb 1666; Extra Clerk, Privy Council 9 May 1666-72, Clerk of the Council in Ordinary 24 Jan 1671/2 – res by 16 Sep 1674; MP Thetford 22 Oct 1669-81, 1685-7, Rochester 1690-1701; knighted 24 Jan 1671/2; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Mar 1671/2; one of the three plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Cologne 1673-4; Secretary of State Sep 1674 – Feb 1678/9; Privy Councillor 11 Sep 1674; a Commissioner of the Admiralty 29 Sep 1674 – Feb 1678/9; refused to allow Daniel Skinner (qv) to publish Milton’s Latin State Letters and the treatise De Doctrina Christina, 1676; committed to the Tower of London by the House of Commons for passing commissions in favour of certain recusants, but promptly released by the King 1678; reappointed to Privy Council 21 Nov 1696; Joint Plenipotentiary at Congress of Nimeguen 1697; Envoy at the Hague 1697-9; FRS 20 May 1663 (one of the original Fellows), President 30 Nov 1677 – 30 Nov 1680; Master, Clothworkers’ Co. 1676; Recorder of Thetford 1682; an industrious and methodical man of affairs; befriended Dr. Lancelot Addison, who named his son Joseph after him; a great benefactor to Queen’s Coll. Oxford; m. Dec 1678 Catherine, widow of Lord O’Brien (son of 7th Earl of Thomond), and dau. of George Stuart, Lord D’Aubigny; d. 3 Oct 1701. Buried in Duke of Richmond’s vault, Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.