Sir James Enyon, 1st Baronet

Biographical Summary

James Enyon, of Flowre [i.e., Flore], co. Northampton, Esq., only s. and h. of James Enyon, of the same, by Dorothy, da. of Thomas Coxe, of Bishop's Itchington, co. Warwick (which James last named, was s. and h. of James Enyon, of Whitechapel, Brewer, who purchased the manor of Flore, and d. in 1623,) was b. about 1587; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 30 March 1604, aged 17 ; adm. to Gray's Inn, 17 March 1602/3, being then of St. Mary's Whitechapel, late of Barnard's Inn, and was cr. a Baronet, as above, 9 April 1642. He m. Jane, da. of Sir Adam Newton, 1st Bart. [1620], of Charlton, by Dorothy, da, of Sir John Puckeking, sometime Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He was killed in a duel at the quarters of the Royalist army at Gloucester, a few months after his creation, by his friend, Sir Nicholas Crispe, who ever afterwards wore mourning for him. He d. s.p.m. when the Baronetcy became extinct. His admon. (as " Sir James Onion ") 19 May 1648, to a creditor. The will of his widow was pr. 1664.

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1902; Vol. II; page 167