Sir Robert Henley, Kt., MP

Family and Education

• b. c.1624, 2nd son of Robert Henley of Henley, Somerset, and brother of Andrew Henley.
• educ. M. Temple 1634, called 1651.
• married (1) 12 Feb. 1663, Catherine, daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blackbourton, Oxfordshire, 1 son 1 daughter;
• married (2) 1 Sept. 1674, Barbara, daughter of John Every of Symondsbury, Dorset and coheir to her brother John Every, 2 sons, 3 daughters.
• Knighted 9 June 1663.[1]

Offices Held

• Chief protonotary, K.b. May 1660-d.;
• associate bencher, M. Temple 1663;
• conservator, Bedford level 1666-9;
• Justice of the Peace for Hampshire 1668-80;
• Commissioner for assessment, Hampshire 1673-80, Middlesex 1689-90, Dorset, Hampshire and Westminster 1690,
• Commissioner for recusants, Hampshire 1675.[2]

Biography

Henley was left £10,000 in his father’s will, together with some houses in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and at the Restoration he was able to enjoy the reversion to the King’s bench office, worth £4,000 a year. On his marriage he purchased an estate in Hampshire, 12 miles from Andover, for which he was returned as a country Member at the second general election of 1679 ‘to his great satisfaction’, which must have been somewhat lessened when he was removed from the commission of the peace a few months later.

An active Member, he was probably appointed to 13 committees in the second Exclusion Parliament, including those to receive information about the Popish Plot, and to draft the address urging the King to accept exclusion. On 4 Jan. 1681 he was reprimanded for default in attendance, and he was defeated at the next election. Nothing more is heard of him till the Revolution, but he was twice defeated in attempts to enter the Convention, at Andover at the general election, and for the county in February 1689.

He was successful at a by-election for Hampshire in 1691, but died after little more than a year in the House on 15 Dec. 1692, and was buried at Northington. His son Anthony, whose inheritance was said to be worth £3,000 p.a., was elected for Andover as a Whig in 1698.[3]

Ref Volumes: 1660-1690

Author: Paula Watson

Notes

• 1. Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 742; N. and Q. (ser. 10), ix. 141-3; St. Mary le Strand par. reg.; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), viii. 215.
• 2. CSP Dom. 1661-2, p. 345; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 458.
• 3. PCC 129 Berkeley; Luttrell, ii. 641; VCH Hants, iii. 395; iv. 196; BL, M636/33, Cary Gardiner to Sir Ralph Verney, 20 Aug. 1679; N. and Q. (ser. 10), ix. 496; R. H. Eden, Northington Mem. 5.

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Sir Robert Henley[1]

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Sir Robert Henley married, secondly, Barbara Every, daughter of John Every.

Sir Robert Henley held the office of Prothonotary of the King's Bench.[2]

He lived at The Grange, Southampton, Hampshire, England.[1]

Child of Sir Robert Henley

• 1. Williamsa Henley+1

Child of Sir Robert Henley and Barbara Every

• 1. Mary Henley+2 b. c 1683, d. c Nov 1760

Citations

• 1. [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 I, page 395. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2. [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume IV, page 177. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.

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ID: I02000

Name: Robert Henley

Sex: M

Birth: 1623

Event: Person Prothonotary of the Common Bench, Grandfather of Robert Henley, the Custodian of the Great Seal

Father: Robert Henley

Mother: Ann Eldred b: 25 FEB 1597/98 in St Michael Basishaw, ENG