James Huxley

James Huxley (1614 – c. 1672) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

Huxley was the son of George Huxley of Edmonton where he was baptised on 6 November 1614. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1633.[1] In 1640 he obtained a mortgage on the estate of Dornford in the parish of Wootton, West Oxfordshire.The owners tried to sell the property to Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland but the sale became a matter of dispute and Cary died. In 1653 Huxley paid off the various parties and acquired Dornford.[2]

Huxley also lived at Oxford in a substantial house next to Pembroke College, Oxford and became a freeman of Oxford on 14 March 1660.[1] In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Oxford in the Convention Parliament.[3]

Huxley married Elizabeth Barkham, daughter of Sir William Barkham. They had daughters Jane who married Sir Nicholas Pelham and Elizabeth who married Robert Cressett of Upton Cressett.[4]

References
  1. Margaret Toynbee The CIty of Oxford and the Restoration of 1660
  2. Baggs, A P; Colvin, Christina; Colvin, H M; Cooper, Janet; Day, C J; Selwyn, Nesta; Tomkinson, A (1983). Crossley, Alan (ed.). "Parishes: Wootton". A History of the County of Oxford. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
  3. History of Parliament Online- Huxley, James
  4. The Pedigree Register June 1910


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