Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685

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Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685

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        1602-1685

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        MARSHAM, SIR JOHN, BART., second son of Thomas Marsham, Alderman of London, and Magdalen, dau. of Richard Springham, London, merchant; b. 23 Aug 1602; adm. Jun 1617; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1619; BA 17 Feb 1622/3; MA 1625; Grand Tour 1625-7 (France, Italy, Germany); adm. Middle Temple 5 Feb 1627/8; one of Six Clerks in Chancery 15 Feb 1637/8 – deprived by Parliament 1641, reinstated Jun 1660 – Oct 1680, when he resigned and the post passed to his son Robert; MP Rochester Apr – Dec 1660; knighted 1 Jul 1660; created baronet 12 Aug 1663; an antiquary interested in Egyptology; author, Chronicus Canon Aegypticus, Ebraicus, Graecus, et Disquisitiones, 1672, and other treatises; m. 13 Jan 1630/1 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Hammond, St. Albans, Nonnington, Kent; d. 25 May 1685. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-00979

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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.

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