Sir Robert Oxenbridge (1595–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.
Oxenbridge was the son of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire[1] and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne[2] He entered Gray's Inn on October 26, 1614.[3] In 1616 he succeeded to the estates at Hurstbourne on the death of his father[1] and was knighted at Newmarket in November 1616.[4]
In 1621, Oxenbridge was elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch. He was elected MP for Hampshire in 1624[5] and for Whitchurch again in 1625 and 1626.[6] In 1636 he sold the estate of Hurstbourne Priors for £1,74712s. 4d. to Sir Henry Wallop, of Farleigh Wallop.[1]
Oxenbridge died unmarried at the age of about 42.[1] His sister Ursula married Sir John Monson, 2nd Baronet.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Hurstbourne Priors', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 287-291. Date accessed: 17 December 2011
- ^ a b George E. Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Vol. 1 (1900)
- ^ Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889
- ^ Knights of England
- ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ^ "OXENBRIDGE, Sir Robert II (1595-1638), of Hurstbourne Priors, nr. Whitchurch, Hants". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 June 2013.