Sir William Armine, 2nd Baronet (14 July 1622 – 2 January 1658) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1646 to 1653. Armine was born at Ruckholt, the son of

Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet Sir William Armine, 1st Baronet (11 December 1593 – 10 April 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1651. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. (His name was also ...

and his first wife, Elizabeth Hicks, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks, of

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, Gloucestershire, and of Ruckholt, in Low Leyton, Essex. He was admitted to

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on 18 November 1639. He served as commissioner of parliament for the Scots in 1643. In March 1646, he was elected

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for

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as a recruiter to the

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. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father on 10 April 1651.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' (1900)
archive.org. Accessed 12 January 2023.

Family

Armine married Anne Crane, daughter of

Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet (1586 – February 1643) of Chilton, Suffolk and of Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1643. Crane was the son of Henry Crane of Chilton ...

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and his second wife Susan Alington, at Chilton on 26 August 1649. They had two surviving daughters, Susan and Anne. *Susan married Lord Belasyse's only son, Sir

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by his first wife Jane Boteler: her husband predeceased his father, leaving a son Henry, 2nd Baron. In 1674 Susan was created Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby in her own right. She remarried James Fortrey of Fortreys Hall,

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, who outlived her. As her son predeceased her, her title became extinct on her death in 1713. She was described as a woman of much life and vivacity, but very little beauty. The future

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was informally engaged to her after his first wife's death, but his brother

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forbade the marriage, on the ground that James had already damaged the monarchy by marrying a non-royal wife,

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. Charles told his brother that "it was too much that he had played the fool once, and it was not to be done a second time."Fraser p.320 *Anne married firstly Sir Thomas Wodehouse, by whom she had at least two children, including

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. She married secondly

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, by whom she had four daughters. She married thirdly

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. She died in 1719. Lady Armine remarried as his second wife

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, and died in 1662. Armine died in London at the age of 36 and was buried on 17 January 1658 at

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. He had no son and the baronetcy passed to his brother Michael.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Armine, William, 2nd Baronets in the Baronetage of England 1622 births 1658 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1648–1653