Ancestral Trails 2016 » Francis POPHAM (1573-1644)

Personal data Francis POPHAM 

• He was born in the year 1573 in Wellington, Somerset.
• He died on July 28, 1644 in Stoke Newington, Hackney, Middlesex, he was 71 years old.
• A child of John POPHAM and Amy GAMES

Household of Francis POPHAM

He is married to Anne Gardiner DUDLEY.

They got married about 1590 at Wiltshire.

Child(ren):

1. Alexander POPHAM  1605-1669 
2. Amy POPHAM  1605-1661
3. Edward Gwyn POPHAM  1610-1651 
4. Jane POPHAM  1611-1668
5. Eleanor POPHAM  1611-????
6. Frances POPHAM  1601-1671 
7. Mary Margaret POPHAM  1603-1636
8. Anne POPHAM  1617-1661
9. Katharine POPHAM  1615-1661
10. Thomas POPHAM  1597-1679
11. Hugh POPHAM  1599-1643
12. John POPHAM  1593-1637 

Notes about Francis POPHAM

Sir Francis Popham (1573-1644) of Wellington, Somerset and Littlecote, Wiltshire, was an English soldier, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1644.

Popham was the only son of Sir John Popham(1531-1607), of Wellington, Somerset, and Littlecote, Wiltshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of England, by his wife Amy Adams, daughter of Hugh Adams of Castleton, Glamorgan.

He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 17 May 1588 at the age of 15, and entered the Middle Temple in 1589. He saw service with the Earl of Essex in Spain and was knighted by him at Cadiz in June 1596.

In 1597 Popham was elected Member of Parliament for Somerset. He was a J.P. for Wiltshire from 1597 and for Somerset by 1602. He was also Deputy Lieutenant for both counties. In 1603 he was made Knight of the Bath. He was elected MP for Wiltshire in 1604. In 1607 he succeeded to the estates of Littlecote on the death of his father. He became constable of Taunton Castle in 1613. In 1614 he was elected MP for Marlborough and in 1621, MP for Great Bedwin. He was elected MP for Chippenham at a by-election in 1624 and was re-elected for the same seat in 1625, 1626 and 1628. He sat until 1629 when King Charles dispensed with parliament for eleven years.

In November 1640, due to the influence of his son-in-law Thomas Luttrell (d.1644) of Dunster Castle, Popham was elected MP for the Luttrell pocket borough of Minehead in the Long Parliament and sat until his death.

Popham was considered to have inherited his father's grasping disposition. He was constantly involved in lawsuits, which he was charged with conducting in a vexatious manner. Like his father, he took an active interest in the settlement of Virginia and New England, and was a member of council of both countries.

Popham married Anne Dudley, daughter and heiress of John Dudley of Stoke Newington, Middlesex, by whom he had four sons and seven daughters, including:

John Popham (died 1638), MP
Alexander Popham, MP
Edward Popham, a General at Sea during the English Civil War.
Jane Popham (d.1668), wife of Thomas Luttrell (d.1644), MP, of Dunster Castle, Somerset.

Popham died in 1644 and was buried at Stoke Newington on 15 August 1644, but in March 1647 was moved to Bristol.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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