 1610 - 1669 (~ 58 years)
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| Name |
Graves, Richard |
| Christened |
16 Sept 1610 |
St Lawrence Pountney, London, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Y [1] |
| Buried |
9 May 1669 |
St James Clerkenwell, London, England |
| Person ID |
I08705 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 May 2015 |
| Family 1 |
Bates, Eleanor, b. Abt 1615, Of St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England , d. 1656, Richmond, Surrey, England (Age ~ 41 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1635 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02915 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Robinson, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1630, England , d. 1712-1714, England (Age ~ 84 years) |
| Married |
15 Jun 1657 |
St Dunstan's in the West, London, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Graves, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1660, England , bur. 20 Dec 1717, Lyminge, Kent, England (Age ~ 57 years) |
| | 2. Graves, Bridget, b. Abt 1664, England , bur. 14 Jun 1748, Northwold, Norfolk, England (Age ~ 84 years) |
| | 3. Graves, Catherine, b. Abt 1666, England , d. 1686, Exeter, Devon, England (Age ~ 20 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02663 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Richard Graves Esquire Lincolns Inn, Middlesex 11 May 1669 Proved 19 July 1669.
Richard Graves Esquire Lincolns Inn, Middlesex Unclear 2 December 1669 Sentence=will contested between Elizabeth Graves and Hannah Maidstone alias Graves-daughter from first marriage?
A three quarter length seated portrait of the successful lawyer Richard Graves of Mickleton (1610-69). He wears black lawyer’s robes and bands, sits in a cushioned armchair at his desk, with his hand on a large book Lex Humana. In the background his coat of arms, partially obscured by a curtain, hangs on the wall. Graves amassed a fortune practising law during the Civil Wars and Interregnum,and became a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and Receiver General of Middlesex. Originally from Richmond, Surrey, in 1654 he purchased further manors in Gloucestershireand the manor of Mickleton, Gloucestershire in 1656 . His coat of arms is still in a window in the chapel at Lincoln’s Inn. He first married Eleanor Bates, daughter of Thomas Bates of London, and secondly Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of John Robinson, Esq., Governor of Gravesend and Tilburyport. He had nineteen children; six sons, of whom only one survived, and thirteen daughters and is buried in St. James’s Clerkenwell
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| Sources |
- [S00095] St James Clerkenwell Parish Registers, London.
May 24 1669 Richard Graves, Esquire, husband to Elisebeth Graves, bur'^ in the Chancell
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