Sir Winston Churchill, MP

CHURCHILL, Winston (1620-88), of Minterne Magna, Dorset and Whitehall.

Family and Education

bap. 18 Apr. 1620, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Churchill of Wootton Glanville, Dorset by 1st w. Sarah, da. and coh. of Sir Henry Winston of Standish, Glos. educ. St. John’s, Oxf. 1636-8; L. Inn 1637, called 1652. m. 26 May 1648 (with £1,500), Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Drake† of Ashe, Musbury, Devon, 8s. (5 d.v.p.) 3da. suc. fa. 1659; kntd. 22 Jan. 1664.1

Offices Held

Capt. of horse (royalist) 1643-5.

J.p. Dorset July 1660-d., Mdx. 1680-d.; commr. for assessment, Dorset Aug. 1660-80, Mdx. 1664-9, Westminster 1679-80; freeman, Poole Nov. 1660; Lyme Regis 1685; commr. for loyal and indigent officers, Dorset 1662, dep. lt. 1664-d.2

Commr. for settlement [I] 1662-9; clerk-comptroller of the green cloth 1664-d.3

FRS 1664-85.

Biography Churchill constructed for himself an impressive pedigree, but he was in fact the grandson of a Dorset copyholder. His father studied law at the Middle Temple, and became deputy registrar of Chancery, in which capacity he acted as jackal, and later Judas, to Bacon. Churchill himself became an undergraduate at St. John’s during the period of Laud’s greatest munificence to the college; but a few years later, as a law student, he was haled before the Privy Council for publicly drinking confusion to the Archbishop. During the Civil War his father, who had resigned his Chancery post to his cousin (Sir) John Churchill, was active as commissioner of array, compounding for £440 in 1646 on property valued at £245 p.a. Churchill himself saw service with the King’s forces in the west until wounded in the arm in December 1645. Although called to the bar in 1652, as a Cavalier he was forbidden to practise; but he is not known to have engaged in royalist conspiracy during the Interregnum, living quietly with his wife’s relatives until his father’s death.4

Churchill was returned for Weymouth in 1661 as a follower of the Earl of Bristol. He took little interest in his constituency; alone among its four Members he made no contribution to the cost of rebuilding the harbour bridge. But at Westminster he was quick to make his mark. Though in the earlier sessions of the Cavalier Parliament there is some possibility of confusion with John Churchill I, he was probably appointed to all the committees of major political significance, including those for the corporations and uniformity bills. As chairman of the committee of inquiry into a seditious pamphlet attacking the former measure, he reported on 15 July that William Prynne had admitted responsibility. He also took the chair for the bill to reduce to 3 per cent the interest payable on loans to Cavaliers, and helped to manage conferences on the corporations bill and the bill of pains and penalties. Churchill received no encouragement from Clarendon, possibly owing to the absence in Guernsey of Sir Hugh Pollard, who was expected to manage the west country Members. Accordingly he attached himself to the rising interest of Sir Henry Bennet, who observed that he ‘spoke confidently and often, and upon some occasions seemed to have credit in the House’, though but ‘of ordinary condition and mean fortunes’. It was under Bennet’s patronage that he first appeared at Court and became one of the government managers in the Commons, while Lord Wharton seems to have regarded him as a moderate. Nevertheless, after the autumn recess he served on the committee for the execution of those under attainder, and was among those sent to the King to ask for the return of Vane and Lambert for this purpose. Charles was so much impressed that he personally ordered an augmentation to Churchill’s somewhat dubious arms, on the grounds of his war service and his ‘present loyalty as a Member of the House of Commons’. He spent the Christmas recess in Dorset, where he was reported as speaking ‘very disrespectfully’ of Clarendon. On his return to Westminster he took the chair for an estate bill. He helped to prepare reasons on confirming ministers in their livings and compensating the loyal and indigent officers, and on 10 May 1662 he was sent to the Lords to desire a conference on the militia bill.5

Churchill was rewarded with a seat on the Irish land commission, in which capacity he was regarded as one of the King’s men, bent on resisting the excessive claims of the Cromwellian settlers, though this position was compromised by his strenuous and successful efforts to secure a large forfeited estate for Bennet. He was never again so active at Westminster, though he continued to take an acute interest in parliamentary affairs. On 12 Nov. 1662 he wrote to Bennet about a bill drawn up together with his friend Thomas Clifford ‘which had not been so long laid aside, but to give way to greater matters. I could heartily wish myself engaged with all the lawyers in the quarrel of that bill.’ In the following January Bennet sent for him to defend the Declaration of Indulgence. Nevertheless he continued to serve on the committees for the Clarendon Code. In 1664 he was listed as a court dependant and helped to manage the conference on injuries sustained at the hands of the Dutch. Still in high favour he was knighted and made clerk-comptroller of the green cloth, though Ormonde, as lord steward, objected to the intrusion of an outsider into a senior Household appointment. On 6 Feb. 1665 he acted as teller with his colleague Bullen Reymes and against the son of another colleague, Giles Strangways, in a division on a bill to assert the rights of the crown over salt-marshes, and in the autumn he again opposed Strangways, in debate and division, over the import of Irish cattle.6

Churchill seems to have been unable to attend the succeeding sessions owing to his work in Ireland, in the course of which he became involved in a violent quarrel with one of the Duke of York’s agents, an awkward incident, since the Duke was now on the most intimate terms with Churchill’s daughter. In the 1669 session, Churchill defended the second conventicles bill, denouncing the influence of ‘seditious people whispering with many of the House’, and was appointed to the committee. He attempted to obstruct the proceedings against Ormonde’s arch-enemy Orrery (Roger Boyle), and acted as teller for the acquittal of Clarendon’s confidant Sir George Carteret on a charge of falsifying accounts. He was one of the delegation sent by the House to thank the dying Albemarle for preserving the peace of the kingdom.7

The decline in Churchill’s position in the House from this time forward is described by A. L. Rowse:

He was now, first and foremost, an official of the Royal Household; he was there to defend the King’s policy and his wishes. As Charles’s Government became more unpopular and lost command of any majority in the Commons, so Sir Winston was considered simply a placeman of the Crown. ... As a leading spokesman of the Court in the House throughout the whole period, he incurred unpopularity when opinion turned more and more against the Court, and in the public prints he was traduced for the undignified situation he was placed in by his daughter’s relation to the heir to the throne.. He still served on some important committees, intended to prevent electoral abuses (8 Dec. 1669) and to supply defects in the Conventicles Act (21 Nov. 1670); but his speech on the Lord’s amendments to the latter, seeming to justify each and every exercise of the prerogative in ecclesiastical matters, was seriously at variance with the feeling of the House. Nor was it tactful in discussing the assault on Sir John Coventry to express surprise that some Members seemed more afflicted by the injury to his colleague’s nose than to Charles I’s neck. As a court dependant he was on both lists of government Members at this time and on the Paston list in 1673-4. He made an effective defence of his department against Sir Thomas Byde in 1674, and sat on the important committee on Irish affairs in the same year. It is notable that he did nothing to save Bennet (now Lord Arlington) from impeachment. It was in this year that his historical work Divi Britannici was at last published; in view of Churchill’s position in the royal household, he was not required to submit it to censorship, but unfortunately it contained a passage so high in defence of the King’s prerogative of taxation that it had to be recalled and amended for fear of Parliament.8

Churchill was listed among the officials in the Commons in 1675. Speaking about the jurisdiction of the Lords, he urged the House to ‘go as high in proof, and as low in words as you can’; and when the conduct of Sir John Churchill became matter for impassioned debate he confined himself to a technical point in his cousin’s favour. But he did not shrink from affirming his belief that those who contrived the dispute were the men who did not own the King’s supremacy. When the session was resumed in the autumn the debate on English officers in the French service took an embarrassingly personal turn, and he had to undertake to recall his son (John Churchill II). Nor could the proposal for a test for pensioners be approved by one who had so long helped to manage the court party: ‘there can be no greater infamy ... in casting reflection, suspicion and self-condemnation’, he said, and proposed instead the punishment of those who cast aspersions on Parliament. There seems to have been no reference in the House to the misadventure of Divi Britannici, unless perhaps the setting up of a committee to investigate publications scandalous to Church and State (20 Oct. 1675) on which Churchill served; but revenue questions bulked large in debate. Churchill was twice teller for unsuccessful government motions; and on being challenged for his views on the appropriation of revenue to the use of the navy, he said that he would accept it when misuse of funds was proved. But he would have no truck with the proposal to pay taxes into the chamber of London; the economic supremacy of the capital was a grievance, he asserted, especially to ship-building constituencies like his own. A further decline in his prestige in the House was signalized when his speech on the pricking of (Sir) Edmund Jennings as sheriff was laughed down.9

Although listed among the government speakers, Churchill was less loquacious in the 1677 session. Shaftesbury classed him as ‘thrice vile’, but he helped to draw up the address for the formation of an alliance against France. The author of A Seasonable Argument wrote of him: ‘He proffered his own daughter to the Duke of York, and has got in boons £10,000. He has published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament.’ He took no part in debate in the early sessions of 1678; (Sir) Joseph Williamson noted that he was to be questioned, and his salary was reduced from £600 to £200 p a. He told (Sir) Stephen Fox ‘that he must be forced to retire to his estate in the country’, and the cut was restored; but it was perhaps while he was suffering from a sense of grievance that he was appointed to the committees to summarize treaty obligations and to draft a bill to exclude Papists from Parliament (12 June). After the Popish Plot he helped to manage a conference on the bill; but he was still listed among the court party, and when he supported the Lords’ proviso to exempt the Duke of York he was shouted down, in spite of his protestation that he was obliged to speak in discharge of his conscience. An attempt to discredit Titus Oates failed no less lamentably. He had been an active Member of the Cavalier Parliament, perhaps serving on 224 committees, acting as teller in 18 divisions, and making about 40 recorded speeches. As one of the ‘unanimous club’ he is unlikely to have stood during the exclusion crisis. After the Rye House Plot he informed Secretary Jenkins about the disaffected speeches and writings of a Dorset attorney.10

Churchill was elected in 1685 for Lyme Regis, probably on the Drake interest. A very active Member of James II’s Parliament, he was appointed to 16 committees, including those to examine the disbandment accounts and to recommend expunctions from the Journals. On 6 June he was named to two committees on private bills, to enable respectively Ormonde’s grandson to make a jointure for his wife, and Edward Meller to sell land for payment of debts. He carried the latter bill to the Lords a week later. On 18 June he acted as teller for the bill to prevent clandestine marriages, and was appointed to the committee. The speeches in defence of the Government sometimes attributed to him in the second session were delivered by Sir William Clifton. He was probably out of sympathy with the King’s religious policy, advising the bishop of Bristol not to deal too harshly with an impudent sermon at Dorchester about the dangers of Popery. He died on 26 Mar. 1688, and was buried at St. Martin in the Fields. Despite his years of court service, he had increased his estate by only a couple of small purchases, and he died in debt. His youngest surviving son, Charles Churchill, inherited Minterne, and sat for Weymouth from 1701 to 1710.11

Ref Volumes: 1660-1690 Author: John. P. Ferris Notes

This biography is based on A. L. Rowse, The Early Churchills.

1. St. Stephen Walbrook (Harl. Soc. Reg. xlix), 59; St. Peter, Paul’s Wharf (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxiii), 22; Cal. Comm. Adv. Money, 1092; HMC Bath, ii. 175. 2. Hutchins, Dorset, i. 32; Lyme Regis court bk. 1672-92, f. 384; Dorset RO, D84 (official). 3. CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 577; CSP Dom. 1668-9, p. 163; HMC Ormonde, n.s. vii. 185; Cal. Treas. Bks. viii. 1950. 4. N. and Q. for Som. and Dorset, xxvii. 190-2; Gen. Mag. xv. 110; Black Bk. L. Inn, ii. 458-63; SP23/186/410-16; Cal. Comm. Adv. Money, 1092. 5. Cal. Cl. SP, v. 208; Hutchins, ii. 442; CJ, viii. 302, 308, 311, 314, 356; Clarendon, Life, ii. 207-10; CSP Ire. 1666-9, p. 99; CSP Dom. 1661-2, p. 176. 6. CSP Ire. 1660-2, p. 616; 1663-5, pp. 42-43, 89, 231; Lister, Clarendon, iii. 232; HMC Ormonde, n.s. vii. 185; CJ, viii. 548, 620; Carte, Ormond, iv. 243; Bodl. Carte mss 34, ff. 448v, 452v; Stowe 744, f. 81; Milward, 233-4. 7. Bulstrode Pprs. 64; Stowe 745, f. 10; CJ, ix. 108, 111; Grey, i. 161-2, 174, 186. 8. Grey, i. 248, 337; ii. 377-9; Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 187; Wood, Athenae, iv. 235. 9. Grey, iii. 154, 236, 266, 335, 359-60, 367, 455; iv. 23; CJ, ix. 370, 373. 10. CJ, ix. 472, 543; Dorset RO, D124, box 235, bdle. 1, Fox to Marlborough, n.d.; Wood’s Life and Times (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xxi), 428; CSP Dom. July-Sept. 1683, p. 239. 11. CSP Dom. 1686-7, p. 134; Hutchins, iv. 471.

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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 10
• Churchill, Winston by Thomas Finlayson Henderson
• CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON (1620?–1688), politician and historian, was descended from an ancient family in Dorsetshire. He was the son of John Churchill of Nunthorn in that county, a lawyer of some eminence, and of Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Sir Henry Winston of Standistone, Gloucestershire, and was born at Wooton Glanville about 1620. In 1636 he entered St. John's College, Oxford, where he is said to have distinguished himself by his sedateness and great application to his studies, although he was obliged, on account of the circumstances of his family, to leave the university without taking a degree. Some time afterwards he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Drake of Ashe, Devonshire, and Eleanor, his wife, sister of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham. Having during the civil war adhered to the party of the king, he was reduced to such extremities that his wife was obliged to retire for some time to her father's house at Ashe. After the Restoration he returned to his estate, and he was elected to represent the borough of Weymouth in the Parliament which met 8 May 1661. In Jan. 1663-4 he received the honour of knighthood, and in 1664 was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society. In the latter year he was appointed commissioner of the court of claims in Ireland, for the purpose of adjudging the qualifications of those who had forfeited their estates. On his return he was constituted one of the clerk comptrollers of the green cloth, an office of some importance at court. After the dissolution of the Pensionary parliament in 1679 he was dismissed from office, but shortly afterwards was restored by the king, and continued to hold it during the remainder of the reign of Charles II, and also during that of James II. During the reign of the latter monarch he represented the borough of Lyme Regis. He died 26 March 1688, and three days afterwards was buried in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. By his wife he had seven sons and four daughters, including John, duke of Marlborough [q. v.], and Arabella Churchill [q. v.]. Churchill's extreme royalist sentiments led him to devote his learning and leisure to the composition of a kind of apotheosis of the kings of England, which he dedicated to Charles II, and published in 1675 under the title Divi Britannici; being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the World 2855 until the year of Grace 1660, with the arms of all the kings of England, which made it sell among novices (Wood).
• [Lediard's Life of Marlborough; Collins's Peerage, ed. 1812, i. 365-6; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iv. 235.]
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Churchill,_Winston_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio30stepgoog#page/n356/mode... ________________________________________
• Sir Winston Churchill1
• M, #105581, b. 1620, d. 1688
• Last Edited=29 Jan 2007
• Sir Winston Churchill was born in 1620.2 He was the son of John Churchill and Sarah Winston.1 He married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Sir John Drake and Hon. Eleanor Boteler, in May 1643.2 He died in 1688.3
• Sir Winston Churchill was educated at St. John's College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.3 He gained the rank of Captain between 1639 and 1646 in the service of the King's Horse.1,4 He was admitted to the Bar in 1652.5 He wrote the book Divi Britannici: Being a remark upon the lives of all the kings of this isle, published 1660.5 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Tory) for Weymouth between 1661 and 1679.1,6 He held the office of Commissioner of the Court of Claims and Explanations [Ireland] between 1662 and 1668.2 He was invested as a Knight in 1664.6 He held the office of Junior Clerk Comptroller to the Board of Green Cloth between 1664 and 1679.6 He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.).6 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Tory) for Lyme between 1685 and 1688.7
• He was an ardent Royalist throughout his life.1 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography
• Children of Sir Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Drake
  • Winston Churchill2
  • Henry Churchill2
  • Jasper Churchill2
  • Mountjoy Churchill2
  • Arabella Churchill+ b. 23 Feb 1647, d. 4 May 1730
  • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough+1 b. 24 Jun 1650, d. 16 Jun 1722
  • Admiral George Churchill+2 b. 28 Feb 1653, d. 8 May 1710
  • Lt.-Gen. Charles Churchill+2 b. 2 Feb 1656, d. 29 Dec 1714
  • Theobald Churchill2 b. 1662, d. 1685
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 491. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S8] BP1999 volume 2, page 1866. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• [S17] Kate Fleming, The Churchills (London, U.K.: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975), page 9. Hereinafter cited as The Churchills.
• [S17] Kate Fleming, The Churchills, page 10.
• [S17] Kate Fleming, The Churchills, page 12.
• [S17] Kate Fleming, The Churchills, page 15.
• [S17] Kate Fleming, The Churchills, page 17.
• [S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), Churchill, Winston. Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10559.htm#i105581 _________________________
• Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, as well as an ancestor of his 20th century namesake, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
• Churchill was the son of John Churchill (b. c. 1596), a lawyer, and wife (m. 1620), Sarah Winston (b. c. 1598), daughter of Sir Henry Winston and wife. The Churchills were an old Dorset family. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, but left university without taking a degree. Churchill was a fervent Royalist through his life and fought and was wounded Civil War as a Captain in the King's Horse and, after the Royalists were defeated, was forced to pay a recompense fee of £4,446. After the Restoration he sat as Tory Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1661 to 1679 and for Lyme Regis from 1685 to 1688. Churchill was also a Commissioner of the Irish Court of Claims and Explanations between 1662 and 1668 and a Junior Clerk Comptroller to the Board of Green Cloth from 1664 to 1679. He was knighted in 1664 and made a Fellow of the Royal Society the same year. He also published a history of the kings of England, entitled Divi Britannica; being a remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the World 2855 until the year of Grace 1660.
• Churchill died in March 1688, at age 67.
• In 1643 Churchill married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Sir John Drake (d. 25 August 1636) and wife Eleanor Boteler, daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield and maternal niece of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. They had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, of whom only six survived infancy; sons Jasper, and Mountjoy died in infancy, while son Winston died at the battle of Solebay in 1672 aged 20,[4] and son Theobald died in 1685 at age 22.[5] Four of their children gained distinction. The aforementioned John became a famous military commander and was created Duke of Marlborough; Charles (2 February 1656 – 1714) became a General in the Army under his elder brother and married Mary Gould (later married to the 2nd Earl of Abingdon); George became an Admiral in the Royal Navy and never married; Arabella became a mistress of King James II and mother of four of his children.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(1620%E2%80%931688) _____________________
• Sir Winston Churchill1
• M, #105075, b. 1622, d. 26 March 1688
• Father John Churchill1 b. c 1595
• Mother Sarah Winston1 b. c 1598
• Sir Winston Churchill was born in 1622 at of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.1 He married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Sir John Drake and Eleanor (Helen) Boteler, on 25 May 1646.1 Sir Winston Churchill died on 26 March 1688; Buried at St. Martin's in the Field, London.1
• Family Elizabeth Drake b. c 1626
• Child
  • Arabella Churchill+1 b. 23 Feb 1648, d. 30 May 1730
• Citations
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3498.htm#... _________________________
• Winston Churchill
• Birth: c. Apr. 18, 1620 Dorset, England
• Death: Mar. 26, 1688 Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
• Soldier and Statesman. Born the son of John Churchill and Sarah Winston in Dorset, England. He attended at St. John's College at Oxford but his education was apparently interrupted by the Civil War. A Royalist, he served as a Captain in the King's Horse. In 1643 he married Elizabeth Drake. The couple had twelve children, of whom five survived childhood, including John, who would become the 1st Duke of Marlborough and from whom was descended a 20th century Prime Minister and namesake. Churchill wrote ‘Divi Britannici: Being a remark upon the lives of all the kings of this isle' which was published in 1660. After the Restoration, he sat as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1661 to 1679 and for Lyme Regis from 1685 to 1688. He held the office of Commissioner of the Court of Claims and Explanations Ireland between 1662 and 1668. He was invested as a Knight in 1664. He held the office of Junior Clerk Comptroller to the Board of Green Cloth between 1664 and 1679, and was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died at age 67 and was interred at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields Churchyard, London. (bio by: Iola)
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Elizabeth Drake Churchill (1620 - ____)*
• Children:
  • Arabella Churchill Stuart Godfrey (1648 - 1730)*
  • John Churchill (1650 - 1722)*
  • George Churchill (1654 - 1710)*
• Burial: St Martin-in-the-Fields Churchyard, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 10260
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=churchill&GSf... ____________________
• CHURCHILL, John II (1650-1722).
• b. 24 June 1650, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of (Sir) Winston Churchill; bro. of Charles Churchill and George Churchill. educ. Dublin free g.s. 1662; St. Paul’s c.1664. m. 1 Oct. 1678, Sarah (d. 19 Oct. 1744), da. of Richard Jennings of Sandridge, Herts. and coh. to her bro., 2s. d.v.p. 5da. cr. Lord Churchill of Eymouth [S] 21 Dec. 1682, Baron Churchill of Sandridge 14 May 1685; suc. fa. 1688; cr. Earl of Marlborough 9 Apr. 1689; KG 14 Mar. 1702; cr. Duke of Marlborough 14 Dec. 1702.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ch... _______________________
• CHURCHILL, George (1654-1710).
• bap. 17 Mar. 1654, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Winston Churchill; bro. of John Churchill II and Charles Churchill. unm.; 1s.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ch... _____________________
• The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofwil01tutt#page/n61/mode/2up
• The Drakes of Ashe, in Devon were a very distinguished family, of whom was John Drake, Esq., one of the Council of Plymouth, a member of the original company established by King James, (unreadable (1 06)), for settling New England. Several of his sons came to New England and settled. Richard, with two or more sons and nine daughters, settled in Hampton, N. H.
• John Drake of Otterton had Richard, Robert, Thomas, who went to Hartford in Herts Agnes mo.of Sir Wm. Pole, the great Antiquary, and John of Exmouth, Devon, who recovered Ashe and m. Margaret dau. of John Colehill, and had, among others:
  • I. Joan Drake, m. Walter, son of William and Jane Grenville, dau. of Sir Thomas Raleigh. He m. (2) __ Daniels; (3) Katharine, dau. of Sir Philip Champernown and wid. of Otho Gilbert; by d m. had Sir Walter Raleigh, b. 15?2. 1, John Raleigh, m. Ann Fortesque, sis. of Gertrude who m. Sir Bernard Drake of Ashe. 2. George Raleigh, m. Katharine, dau. of Otho and Katharine (Champernown) Gilbert, and sis. of Sir John, Sir Humphrey and Sir Adwin Gilbert.
  • II. Sir John Drake, Exq., of Ashe, High Sheriff of Devon; d. 1588; m. 1529, Amy Grenville, sis. to Sir Richard, and had: 1. Sir Bernard Drake, b. abt. 1530; a distinguished Naval Officer; d. Jan. 11, 1585; gave Sir Francis, s. of Edmund Drake, b. 1545, the great Admiral, a box on the ear for assuming the family arms, Sir Francis being of a younger branch. He m. Gertrude Fortesque, and had; 1. John, d. 1628; m. Helena, dau. of John, Baron Boteler of Herts, and his wf. Elizabeth, half-sis. to Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and had: 1. Sir John. 2. George, d. unm., 1664. 3. Thomas of Ireland; d. s. i. 1659. 4. Henry, settled at Barnstaple, Devon, of which he was Mayor, 1679. 5. Dorothy. 6. Mary. 7. Eleanor. 8. ELIZABETH, m. Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL. (1). John Churchill, b. at Ashe (while his mother was on a visit to her father) Duke of Marlboro; m. Sarah Jennings. (2) Arabella, had 4 chil. by James, Duke of York, afterwards James II, King of England. She afterwards m. Col. Charles Godfrey, and had, 1. Charlotte, m. April 23, 1700, High Bascawen, Viscount Falmouth and had 18 chil. (3) George. 2. Margaret, m. John Sherman and had dau. Alice, m. Richard Percival, ancestor of Earls of Egmont. 2. Robert Drake of Wiscomb, m. and had 7 sons and 3 daus. 1. William. 2. Bernard. 3. John, m. and had i. 4. Robert. 5. Henry, killed in army; s. i. 6. Nicholas, m. Katharine, dau. of William Tothill and wid. of Wm. Kingsley. 7. Humphrey. 8. Gertrude. 9. Amy. 10. Ursula. 3. Richard Drake, b. 1534; of Surrey; d. July 11, 1603, Equerry to Queen Elizabeth. Introduced his kinsman, Francis Drake, afterwards the great Admiral, to the Queen; m. Ursula, dau. of Sir Wm. Stafford. 1. Francis Drake of Shardeloes, d. 1613; m. Joan, dau. of Wm. Tothill of Shardeloes, Esq. At her house Thomas Hooker sojourned, afterwards ??u de? of the Conn. Colony. 2. George Drake of Spratshays, Esq.; supposed of this family; had dau; Katharine m. John Ford of Bagton, Devon, Eng. who had Sir Henry Ford, Secretary of Stateof Ireland for Charles II; sold Bagton to Mr. Tothill, whose descendants sold it to Lord Ashburton. __________________________

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• Residence: Dublin - 1666
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 4 2023, 21:16:16 UTC