killed in a coach accident - Marlow Buckinghamshire
Sir Miles Hobart MP who died unmarried 20th June 1632 aged 34 after suffering a head injury in a coach accident in Holborn. Monument erected by public subscription & money raised by the House of Commons
Sir Miles , born in 1598 was the son & heir of Miles Hobart 1601 of Harleyford and London, Clothworker, and 3rd wife Elizabeth 1619 , daughter of Richard Brooke, Goldsmith of London : And widow of Richard Thorpe 1591. vintner of London.
His father died when he was about 3 years old & his wardship was bought by John Hobert, presumably a relative, and two others. His mother remarried 3 years later as 3rd wife to Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk castle, lord mayor of London, son Sir Richard Myddleton 1575 of Denbigh flic.kr/p/5izcLn
He was educated at Queens college, Oxford & Greys Inn. He was knighted 8th August 1623
Between 1622-1625, a modest landowner at Harleyford, he spent £1,500 on a ‘fair house’ and had an estate worth c£350 pa: He also owned houses in London let on long leases which brought in over £100 p.a.
He was MP for Great Marlow in 1628 and was for a time imprisoned in the Fleet after "dramatic scenes" in the House of Commons +++
Dying suddenly , unmarried & without a will , he was buried here on 4th July.27 . Estimated to be worth £600 p.a. in land and £2,000 in money, part of his estate reverted to the Crown for lack of heirs and was used to endow fellowships at Oxford for inhabitants of the Channel Islands, while his manor of Harleyford was divided between two second cousins.
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Photographs by kind permission - copyright John Vigar flic.kr/p/522wxY flic.kr/p/51Xi7a
killed in a coach accident - Marlow Buckinghamshire
Sir Miles Hobart MP who died unmarried 20th June 1632 aged 34 after suffering a head injury in a coach accident in Holborn. Monument erected by public subscription & money raised by the House of Commons
Sir Miles , born in 1598 was the son & heir of Miles Hobart 1601 of Harleyford and London, Clothworker, and 3rd wife Elizabeth 1619 , daughter of Richard Brooke, Goldsmith of London : And widow of Richard Thorpe 1591. vintner of London.
His father died when he was about 3 years old & his wardship was bought by John Hobert, presumably a relative, and two others. His mother remarried 3 years later as 3rd wife to Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk castle, lord mayor of London, son Sir Richard Myddleton 1575 of Denbigh flic.kr/p/5izcLn
He was educated at Queens college, Oxford & Greys Inn. He was knighted 8th August 1623
Between 1622-1625, a modest landowner at Harleyford, he spent £1,500 on a ‘fair house’ and had an estate worth c£350 pa: He also owned houses in London let on long leases which brought in over £100 p.a.
He was MP for Great Marlow in 1628 and was for a time imprisoned in the Fleet after "dramatic scenes" in the House of Commons +++
Dying suddenly , unmarried & without a will , he was buried here on 4th July.27 . Estimated to be worth £600 p.a. in land and £2,000 in money, part of his estate reverted to the Crown for lack of heirs and was used to endow fellowships at Oxford for inhabitants of the Channel Islands, while his manor of Harleyford was divided between two second cousins.
+++ www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member... - Church of All Saints, Marlow Buckinghamshire
Photographs by kind permission - copyright John Vigar flic.kr/p/522wxY flic.kr/p/51Xi7a