Walter Norborne (died 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He supported the

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side in the

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. Norborne was the son of John Norborne of

Hilmarton Hilmarton is a village and civil parish in North Wiltshire, in the west of England. The village lies on the A3102 between the towns of Calne and Wootton Bassett, and south of Lyneham. The parish includes the village of Goatacre and the hamlets ...

, Wiltshire. In April 1640, Norborne was elected

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for Calne in the

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. He supported the King in the Civil War and was fined £380 by the Parliament as a result. 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

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, President of Magdalen College Oxford. Norborne married Mary Chivers, daughter of Henry Chivers of Quemerford and his wife Elizabeth Seacole of Milton, Oxfordshire. His son

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was later MP for Calne until he was killed in a duel.

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Norborne, Walter Year of birth missing 1659 deaths English MPs 1640 (April) Cavaliers