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Sir Richard Combe

Sir Richard Combe (c. 1632 – living 1675) of Hemel Hempstead, was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum and again shortly after the Restoration by Charles II.[1][a]

Biography edit

Richard Combe was the son of Tobias Combe, of Felmeston-Bury, Hertfordshire, [2] and Mary, daughter of John Theede of Crofton Com. Buckinghamshire.[3]

Combe was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell at Whitehall in August 1656.[4] This honour passed into oblivion with the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in May 1660, however Charles bestowed a new knighthood on Sir Richard on 5 February 1661.[5][b] During the Interregnum Sir Richard a supporter of the Parliamentary cause prospered,[c] but after the Restoration his fortunes waned, and he died poor.[6][3]

Family edit

Combe married twice. His first wife was named Anne, daughter and coheir of John Frere of Stroke Suffolk. [d] They had two sons:[3]

  • Richard (1654–1692).[3][7]
  • Thomas (born 1656 – before 1692).[3][7]

Combe married secondly Anne daughter of —— Trowe of ——, Oxfordshire.[3]

Ancestry edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Also known as Richard Combes.
  2. ^ Some sources give the date as 5 February 1660, however that is using the old style dates with the new year starting on 25 March (see Old Style and New Style dates).
  3. ^ This increase in prosperity was largely caused by the close connexion which existed during the Civil War and the Protectorate between Hertfordshire and Parliament. Sir Richard Combe, a Parliamentarian, purchased a moiety of the manor of Hemelhempstead in 1655 and lived at the Bury, helping the town in many ways (Gladstone 1929, p. 212).
  4. ^ The records of the two wives presented in this biography are from Le Neve & Marshall 1873, p. 127, but a more recent source states that the "[On the] buried coffin-lids ... a coat of arms was plainly visible ..., and one of them bore the following inscription 'Here lyeth buried the boddy of Dame Ann Combe, the dutiful and respectful daughter of her father, late of Ashenham, in the county of Essex, Esquire, and beloved wife of Richard Combe, Hemel Hempstead, in the county of Hertford, Knight, April 17th, 1658.'" (White 1901, p. 189)
  1. ^ Date of birth (Combes 2010); Date of death (Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies)
  2. ^ a b Noble 1787, p. 443.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Le Neve & Marshall 1873, p. 127.
  4. ^ Shaw 1906, p. 223.
  5. ^ Shaw 1906, p. 233.
  6. ^ Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies.
  7. ^ a b "the father's first, the family's last" (Brereton 1910, p. 34)
  8. ^ a b c Burke 1866, p. 442.
  9. ^ Warton 1780, p. 433.

References edit

  • Gladstone, John (1929), "Hemelhempstead Market, 1620–1660" (PDF), St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society: Transactions 1928, St Albans: The Society, pp. 196–213
  • Brereton, Frederick Sadlier (1910), Hemel Hempstead through the ages, Hemel Hempstead, England: Hertfordshire Newspapers, p. 34
  • Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), "Pope—Earl of Downe", A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, p. 442
  • Combes, George Davison Aylesworth (2010), Combs-Coombs and company Research Group (ed.), Combs &c. Families of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, Combs-Coombs and company Research Group on USGenNet
  • Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, "Agreement DE/Kl/19904 18 May 1675", Title deeds and Manorial records of the Blackwell estate, Kings Langley, 1274 - 1903, British National Archives
  • Le Neve, Peter; Marshall, George William (1873), Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne, p. 127
  • Noble, Mark (1787). Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell; Deduced from an early period, and continued down to the present time; and, also the families allied to, or descended from them. Vol. 1 (3 ed.). London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson. p. 443.
  • Shaw, William Arthur (1906), The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, vol. 2, London: Sherratt and Hughes, pp. 223, 233
  • Warton, Thomas (1780), The life of Sir Thomas Pope, Thomas Cadell, p. 433
  • White, William (1901), Notes and Queries, vol. 7, p. 188–188–189

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