Daniel Blagrave (1603–1668) was a prominent resident of the town of
Reading
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, in the
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county of
Berkshire. He was
Member of Parliament
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for the
Parliamentary Borough of Reading over several periods between 1640 and 1660, and was also one of the signatories of
King Charles I's death warrant.
Of a branch of the Blagraves of
Calcot Manor
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, near Reading,
[Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, edited by L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952, pages 200-201] Daniel Blagrave was educated at
Reading School
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and trained to be a lawyer. Daniel Blagrave's uncle was the mathematician
John Blagrave of Southcote Manor, in what is now the Reading suburb of
Southcote, and Daniel inherited the manor on John's death. In 1643 he permitted the
Earl of Essex
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to use the manor as the
Roundhead
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headquarters during the Siege of Reading. He was Recorder of Reading from 1645 to 1656 and again from 1658.
During the
Commonwealth, Daniel Blagrave held various commissions and posts, and is said to have become a very wealthy man as a consequence.
On the restoration of
King Charles II, Daniel Blagrave fled the country and settled at
Aachen, in what is now
Germany
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, where he died in 1668.
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1603 births
1668 deaths
People educated at Reading School
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Reading
Regicides of Charles I
People from Reading, Berkshire
English MPs 1640–1648
English MPs 1648–1653
English MPs 1659
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