JEFFREYS, GEORGE, 1ST BARON JEFFREYS OF WEM, sixth son of John Jeffreys, Acton, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Thomas Ireland, Kt, Beausay, near Warrington, Lancs.; b. 1648; at Shrewsbury Sch., adm. 1654, aged 10 (sic), and then at St. Paul’s Sch.; adm. 1661 (Howell, State Trials, x, 299); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Mar 1662/3; adm. Inner Temple 19 May 1663, called to bar 22 Nov 1668, Bencher Jan 1678; Common Serjeant, City of London 17 Mar 1671; knighted 14 Sep 1677; Recorder of London 22 Oct 1678 – 2 Dec 1680, when he resigned after being reprimanded at bar of House of Commons for obstructing petitions for the assembly of Parliament; Solicitor-Gen. to Duke of York Jan 1679; Chief Justice of Chester 27 Apr 1680-3; Serjeant-at-Law 12 May 1680; created baronet 17 Nov 1681; active in obtaining the “quo warranto” against the City and in the prosecution of Lord Russell; Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 29 Sep 1683 – Sep 1685; Privy Councillor 4 Oct 1683; presided at trials of Algernon Sidney and Titus Oates; created Baron Jeffreys of Wem 15 May 1685; held the “bloody assize” in the West of England after the suppression of Monmouth’s rebellion; Lord Chancellor 28 Sep 1685 – 8 Dec 1688; chief of the commission for inspecting ecclesiastical affairs 1686; one of the seven Privy Councillors who regulated the municipal corporations 1687; Lord Lieut., Shropshire, from 11 Aug 1687; Lord Lieut., Buckinghamshire 12 Nov 1687 – 4 Apr 1689; a member of the council of five lords in the absence of James II from London; arrested in disguise at Wapping Dec 1688 and conveyed to Tower of London; in Jan 1687 he gave £12 to the Dean and Chapter “for the education of two poore schollers at the Schoole in Westminster”; m. 1st, 23 May 1667 Sarah, dau. of Rev. Thomas Neesham, Rector of Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey; m. 2nd, Jun 1679 Ann, widow of Sir John Jones, Kt, Fonmon, Glamorgan, and dau. of Sir Thomas Bludworth, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; d. while a prisoner in Tower of London, 18 Apr 1689. DNB.
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- NT 1, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 13, Moreton Terrace
- NT 14, Barton Street
- NT 15, Moreton Terrace
- NT 16, Vincent Square
- NT 17, Dean's Yard
- NT 17, Vincent Square
- NT 18, Dean's Yard
- NT 18, Great College Street
- NT 18, Vincent Square
- NT 19, Dean's Yard
- NT 2, Barton Street
- NT 2, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 20, Dean's Yard
- NT 20, Great College Street
- NT 22, Great College Street
- NT 22, Vincent Square
- NT 23, Vincent Square
- NT 26, Great College Street
- NT 29, Great College Street
- NT 29a, Great College Street
- NT 3, Dean's Yard
- NT 3, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 4, Barton Street
- NT 5, Barton Street
- NT 5a, Dean's Yard
- NT 6, Dean's Yard
- NT 7-9, Dean Bradley Street
- NT 7, Lord North Street
- NT 8, Gayfere Street
- NT Adrian Boult Building
- NT Adrian Boult Music Centre
- NT Armoury
- NT Armoury Block
- NT Ashburnham House
- NT Barton Street
- NT Boat House
- NT Busby Library
- NT Chapel
- NT Church House
- NT College Dormitory
- NT College Garden
- NT College Hall
- NT Dean's Yard
- NT Great College Street
- NT Great Sanctuary
- NT Grove Park
- NT Gym
- NT Liddell's Arch
- NT Little Dean's Yard
- NT Manoukian Music Centre
- NT Millicent Fawcett Hall
- NT Mother Dawson's
- NT Nenthead House, Alston
- NT Robert Hooke Science Centre
- NT School
- NT School Gateway
- NT School House, Alston
- NT Singleton's
- NT Sports Centre
- NT St Edward's House
- NT Sutcliff's
- NT Tothill Fields
- NT Tothill Street
- NT Tufton Street
- NT Turles House
- NT Under School
- NT Vincent Square
- NT Westminster Abbey
- NT Weston Building