- GB-2014-WSA-18695
- Person
- 1608-1651
WYAT, SIR DUDLEY, son of John Wyat (or Wyott) (IGI); bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 1 Nov 1608 (IGI); adm.; KS in 1625; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1627, adm. pens. 1627, scholar 25 Apr 1628, matr. 1627; BA 1631/2; MA 1635; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1633, Major Fellow 10 Oct 1634-44; given leave of absence from his college to travel in Ireland for seven years 1641, but deprived of Fellowship 1644; joined Queen Henrietta Maria in France and developed into a busy spy and intriguer; Commissary-General in Royalist Army; knighted 4 Jun 1645; appears subsequently to have gone over to Parliament, for in a letter dated 23 Dec 1647 Oliver Cromwell requested the Master of Trinity to readmit Wyat (Alum. Westmon., 100), although there is no record of his readmission; emigrated to Virginia1650, where he d. before 25 Jul 1651 (will dated 29 Mar 1650, proved Jamestown, Virginia 25 Jul 1651).