Walter Norborne (died 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
Norborne was the son of John Norborne of Hilmarton, Wiltshire.[1]
In April 1640, Norborne was elected Member of Parliament for Calne in the Short Parliament.[2] He supported the King in the Civil War and was fined £380 by the Parliament as a result.[1]
Norborne died in 1659, and according to his epitaph, his loyalty to Church and State provoked the people of Calne to some act of violence at his funeral. He was buried in the north transept of the church, where there is a monumental tablet with an epitaph written in Latin and Greek by Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College Oxford.[3]
Norborne married Mary Chivers, daughter of Henry Chivers of Quemerford and his wife Elizabeth Seacole of Milton, Oxfordshire.[3] His son Walter was later MP for Calne until he was killed in a duel.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Dunning, R. W.; Rogers, K. H.; Spalding, P. A.; Shrimpton, Colin; Stevenson, Janet H.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1970). "Hilmarton". In Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.). A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 9. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 49–65. Retrieved 15 October 2023 – via British History Online.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Extract from the topographical collections of John Aubrey, 1659–70". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012 – via Internet Archive.