William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard (10 July 1586 – 19 December 1640) of

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, Essex was an English Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was the eldest son of Sir

Henry Maynard Sir Henry Maynard (1547–1610) was an English politician and secretary to Lord Burghley, and became (by steady accretion) a substantial landowner. Origins Maynard was the son of John Maynard, who had been MP for St Albans in the first Parl ...

of Easton Lodge and educated at the embassy in Paris (1598), St. John’s College, Cambridge (awarded MA, 1608) and entered the

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(1611). He was knighted in 1609 and succeeded his father in 1610. He was the

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(MP) for Penryn (1609–1611) and

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in 1614. He was created a baronet in 1611, Baron Maynard of Wicklow in the Irish peerage in 1620 and Baron Maynard of Estaines ad Turrim (Little Easton) in the English peerage in 1628. He was

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(6 August 1635 – 17 December 1640),

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and

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for life in 1640. He married twice. Firstly in 1608, he married Frances, the daughter of William Cavendish, 1st Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, later 1st Earl of Devonshire. Their 3 children predeceased him. He then married in 1615 Anne, the daughter of Sir Anthony Everard of Great Waltham, Essex. They had 2 sons and 5 daughters. He was succeeded by his only surviving son

William Maynard, 2nd Baron Maynard William Maynard, 2nd Baron Maynard (c. 1623 – 3 February 1688/89) was an English aristocrat, the son of William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard and Anne Everard. He married Dorothy Banastre. He later married Lady Margaret Murray, daughter of Wil ...

References

*http://thepeerage.com/p1215.htm#i12150

External links

Portrait of Frances Lady Maynard (1595-1613), Hardwick Hall, NT
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