Allen Apsley M.P. (1616 - 1683)

Born 28 Aug 1616 in City of London, England

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Died 15 Oct 1683 at age 67 in St James's Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England

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Sir Allen Apsley was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Allen was born in 1616 in East Smithfield near St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in a house owned by the King on loan to his father. He was the eldest son of Allen Apsley and his third wife Lucy St John. He was christened 6th September 1616 in All Hallows Church, Barking. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School for boys (entering in 1526), and Trinity College, Oxford (Allen didn’t complete his M.A. until 28th September 1663, after the civil wars). He was a Royalist Cavalier and commanded a troop during the Civil War. In 1645 he was Governor of Barnstaple in Devon. Served in Parliament as member for Thetford in Norfolk. He was buried at Westminster Abbey near the entrance of St Nicholas' Chapel on 17th October 1683. Find A Grave: Memorial #72178703 Allen Apsley

Sources

• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 87, Apsley.
• The Dictionary of National Biography under Sir Allen Apsley, junior.

• History of Parliament online: APSLEY, Sir Allen (1616-83), of St. James's Square, Westminster
• "Plantagenet Descent" by David A. Blocher
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3M94-79G : accessed 2017-12-24), entry for Allen /Apsley/.
• Maskell, Joseph. Berkyngechirche Juxta Turrim (Bryan Corcoran & Co., London, 1864) Page 65.

• "...and in 1645 we find him Governor of Barnstaple, under whose care Prince Charles was placed during the troubles of that time. As a distinguished Royalist, he was not overlooked by Charles II. who made him the Royal Falconer in 1660. He was maternal ancestor to the Earls Bathurst; Apsley is the second title of this family."

• A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England By John Burke · 1831 Page 564: Wentworth