WALLOP, Robert (1601-1667), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants and Covent Garden, Westminster

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Available from Cambridge University Press

Constituency

Dates

22 Nov. 1621
1640 (Apr.)
1640 (Nov.)
1660 - 11 June 1660

Family and Education

b. 20 July 1601, o.s. of Sir Henry Wallop* of Farleigh Wallop, and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Robert Corbet† of Moreton Corbet, Salop.1 educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 1615.2 m. (1) by 1635, Anne (d.1662), da. of Henry, 3rd earl of Southampton, 1s. 1da. d.v.p.;3 (2) lic. 16 Feb. 1663, Mary, da. of John Lambert† of Craven, Yorks., s.p.4 (3) 16 May 1666, Elizabeth Thompson, s.p.5 suc. fa. 1642.6 d. 16 Nov. 1667.7

Offices Held

J.p. Hants 1625-42, ?1649-60, Salop ?1649-53, Mdx., Surr. and Wilts. 1650-2;8 commr. disarming recusants, Hants 1625;9 col. militia ft. Hants 1626-60;10 commr. billeting Hants 1626, martial law 1626-8,11 oyer and terminer, 1628, 1642, Surr. 1644,12 swans, Hants, Wilts., Dorset, Som., Devon, Cornw. and I.o.W. 1629,13 sewers, Hants and Wilts. 1629-30, Berks and Hants 1633,14 piracy Hants and I.o.W. 1635-6;15 freeman, Porstmouth, Hants 1643,16 Winchester, Hants by 1645;17 commr. assessment, Hants 1643-52, 1657-60, Salop 1647-52, 1659-60, Som. 1648-50, Northants. 1649-50, Mdx. 1649-52, sequestration, Hants 1643, levying money 1643, defence 1643, execution of ordinances, Salop 1644, Hants 1644-5,18 gaol delivery, Surr. 1644;19 high steward, Winchester 1645-60;20 gov. of Covent Garden precinct, Mdx. 1646;21 commr. militia, Hants 1648-50, Hants and Salop 1659-60;22 custos rot. Hants by 1650-60;23 commr. sewers, River Kennett 1654,24 oyer and terminer, Western circ. 1654-d.25

Commr. defence of Ireland 1642;26 member, cttee. of Both Kingdoms 1644-8;27 commr. exclusion from sacrament 1646, scandalous offences 1648;28 member High Ct. of Justice 1649;29 cllr. of state 1649-52, 1659-60.30

Biography

The son of the richest commoner in Hampshire, Wallop was first returned at a by-election for Andover in 1621 while still under age, and was re-elected to every subsequent Parliament until the Restoration, either for the borough or the county. Nevertheless, so far as is known, he was totally inactive in Parliament throughout the period before 1640.

Although his father was prepared to give him a free choice, Wallop made a very advantageous marriage to the daughter of Hampshire’s lord lieutenant.31 He refused to compound for knighthood in 1630, claiming that he had not received an individual summons to the Coronation and had not held lands worth £40 p.a. at the time. He was subsequently ordered to appear before the Privy Council, but his excuse seems to have been accepted.32 He was a staunch supporter of Parliament during the Civil War, and was a member of the republican Council of State.33 Although he did not sign Charles I’s death warrant, at the Restoration he was condemned as a regicide and imprisoned for life. He died intestate in the Tower on 16 Nov. 1667, and was buried at Farley.34 He was succeeded by his only son Henry Wallop, MP for Whitchurch 1660-74.

Ref Volumes: 1604-1629

Authors: Virginia C.D. Moseley / Rosemary Sgroi

Notes

  • 1. R. Warner, Colls. Hist. Hants, iv. 130.
  • 2. Al. Ox.
  • 3. Berry, Hants Gen. 42.
  • 4. London Mar. Lics. ed. J. Foster, 1045.
  • 5. V.J. Watney, Wallop Fam. i. p. liii.
  • 6. Warner, iv. 130.
  • 7. J. Stevens, St. Mary Bourne, 175.
  • 8. C231/4, p. 190, C231/5, p. 528; Names of JPs (1650), pp. 35, 47, 50, 55, 61.
  • 9. Add. 21922, f. 38.
  • 10. Add. 21922, f. 59v, passim.; Add. 26781, ff. 17, 21v, 25, 35, 51.
  • 11. APC, 1626, pp. 221, 22; CSP Dom. 1625-6, p. 419; 1627-8, p. 440.
  • 12. APC, 1627-8, p. 318; C181/3, f. 241; 181/5, ff. 221v, 239.
  • 13. C181/4, f. 3.
  • 14. C181/4, ff. 17v, 49v, 147v.
  • 15. C181/5, ff. 24, 58v.
  • 16. Portsmouth Recs. ed. R. East, 353.
  • 17. Hants RO, W/B1/4, f. 157.
  • 18. A. and O. i. 91, 113, 148, 230, 335, 447, 450, 540, 696, 973, 974, 1090, 1242; ii. 38, 39, 41, 42, 307, 471, 472, 475, 668, 670, 673, 674, 1080, 1331, 1332, 1377, 1378, 1442.
  • 19. C181/5, f. 239v.
  • 20. Hants RO, W/B1/4, f. 157; W/F2/4, f. 198; W/B1/5, f. 145v.
  • 21. A. and O. i. 815.
  • 22. CSP Dom. 1650, p. 471.
  • 23. C193/13/5, 6.
  • 24. C181/6, f. 44.
  • 25. CSP Dom. 1655, p. 114; Thurloe State Pprs. iii. 296; C181/6, ff. 8, 374.
  • 26. Harl. 1332, f. 1.
  • 27. CSP Dom. 1644, p. 21; A. and O. i. 382.
  • 28. A. and O. i. 853, 1209.
  • 29. Ibid. 1254.
  • 30. Ibid. ii. 2, 335, 1273; CSP Dom. 1649-50, p. 512.
  • 31. HMC Portland, iii. 15.
  • 32. Add. 21922, ff. 178, 183.
  • 33. M. Keeler, Long Parl. 378; Warner, iv. 130.
  • 34. J. Stevens, St. Mary Bourne, 175.