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ELSYNGE, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Elsynge, Battersea, Surrey, Clerk of Parliaments, House of Lords, and barrister, Middle Temple, and his first wife Blanch, dau. of Richard Hyett, Cornwell, Oxfordshire; nephew of Thomas Knyvett (qv); b.; bapt. 2 Mar 1606 at St Dunstan-in-the-West [DNB]; at school under Wilson (Camdeni Insignia, 1624); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 18; BA 1625; adm. Middle Temple 24 Nov 1628; travelled abroad for seven years; Clerk of the House of Commons 21 Dec 1639 – 5 Jan 1649, when he resigned to avoid taking part in the proceedings against Charles I; retired to Hounslow, Middlesex; author, Of the Form and Manner of holding a Parliament in England, 1663 (a treatise largely or wholly the work of his father), and other works; m. 8 Nov 1636 Margaret, sister of Richard Tias (qv); d. Hounslow, Middlesex Aug 1654 (body subsequently removed and buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 30 Sep 1656). DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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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.