Sir Daniel Fleming (1633–1701), was an English antiquarian and politician.
Life
Fleming was born on 25 July 1633, the eldest son of William Fleming of
Coniston, North
Lancashire, and
Rydal,
Westmoreland, by Alice, eldest daughter of Roger Kirkby of
Kirkby, Lancashire. He was educated at
The Queen's College, Oxford, which he entered in 1650, and
Gray's Inn.
By the death of his father in 1653 Fleming inherited considerable estates in the neighbourhood of
Rydal, for which he paid heavy fines to the parliament. At the
Restoration he was appointed sheriff of
Cumberland
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. He was a constant correspondent of Secretary
Joseph Williamson: his letters, which went to the
Public Record Office, afford a lively picture of the state of affairs in Cumberland and Westmorland during the latter half of the 17th century. They exhibit him as a staunch supporter of the
Church of England, and enemy alike of the Protestant dissenter and the Roman Catholic. He regretted the release of
George Fox
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in 1666 as likely to discourage the justices from acting against the Quakers, and gave credence to reports of their burning "steeple houses".
He was knighted on 15 May 1681 at
Windsor, and in the parliament of 1685–1687 sat as member for ; he opposed the
Declaration of Indulgence. He occupied his leisure in antiquarian researches, chiefly in connection with his native county, and left some manuscript collections, which were edited for the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society under the title "Description of the County of Westmoreland". He died in 1701.
Fleming is said by
Thomas Wotton to have been an assistant in the annotation of
William Camden's ''Britannia''; no acknowledgment, however, is to be found in the preface to
Edmund Gibson's edition. It was at Fleming's suggestion that
Thomas Brathwaite left his collection of coins of the Roman era to the
university of Oxford.
Family
Fleming married in 1655 Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Fletcher of
Hutton, Cumberland, who was killed at
Rowton Heath on the side of the king in 1645. His eldest son,
William, created a baronet 4 October 1705,
died in 1736, and was succeeded by his brother
Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet,
bishop of Carlisle
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The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The see is in the city of Car ...
.
References
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1633 births
1701 deaths
17th-century antiquarians
17th-century English people
English antiquarians