- 1633: High Sheriff for Wiltshire
- 1614-1643: Member of Parliament
Henry Ludlow the Younger was born 1592 in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom to Edmund Ludlow (1545-1624) and Margaret Manning (1559-1643) and died October 1643 of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Phelps (1590-1650) 6 February 1611 in St Dunstan in the West, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
From a prosperous gentry family, whose main estates lay in Wiltshire, Ludlow was well provided for, despite having three older half brothers. On his marriage in 1612 his father gave him the Wiltshire manor of Fifield. In addition, his father-in-law Richard Phelips (nephew of the former Commons Speaker Sir Edward Phelips) bestowed upon him three manors in Somerset and Wiltshire, two of which lay close to Maiden Bradley, where he resided with his father. Although Ludlow enjoyed the profits of these manors he never moved from his father’s house, which he inherited in 1624.15 The transfer of Fifield manor to Ludlow exacerbated a family feud, as the property had earlier been promised to his step-brother Henry. Ludlow was involved in wranglings over this and other properties for many years: as late as January 1640 he and six siblings petitioned the Council to prevent his nephew, son of the said Henry, mortgaging estates in which Ludlow himself held a claim.16
Despite his youth, Ludlow was able to secure the nearby parliamentary seat of Heytesbury in 1614. His father’s local influence may have helped, but he must also have won the support of the borough’s patron, (Sir) Thomas Thynne*, who shared Heytesbury with Ludlow in the following two parliaments. In 1625 Thynne in turn looked for support from Ludlow when soliciting help in his unsuccessful pitch for the county seat.17 Perhaps preoccupied with his large family, Ludlow showed no recorded interest in the business of the parliaments in which he sat.
Ludlow was sufficiently respected in Wiltshire to serve on the bench and, in 1633, be pricked as sheriff, but his subsequent behaviour was unco-operative. Just as his half brother Henry had been censored for refusing to contribute towards the Forced Loan in 1627, Ludlow himself ignored a royal request for a loan in 1639.18 In addition, he was a defaulter for the musters of 1636, and in the following year he and his fellow Wiltshire magistrates were threatened with a summons by the Privy Council for obstructing the Navy’s timber purveyors.19 He was also attacked by Laud for contributing only a small sum towards the repair of St. Paul’s, and by the Council for attempting to have his Somerset manor excluded from rates.20
Along with his uncle Edward Manning, Ludlow paid £1,520 to the Crown in March 1639 for all that part of Chute Forest which lay in Wiltshire, along with some woodland in adjoining Hampshire.21 It was not until he was elected for the county to the Long Parliament that his contributions were recorded - by which time he had become allied with John Pym.22 As an ally of Pym’s he actively took up Parliament’s cause and encouraged his eldest son Edmund, the later regicide, to join Essex’s army. His house at Maiden Bradley was plundered by royalist forces in March 1643 and in the following October, perhaps out of revenge, he obtained an order from Parliament for Edmund to slight the royalist stronghold at Wardour Castle, Wiltshire. In the same month Ludlow’s second son, Robert died a prisoner of the royalists. According to Edmund, this tragedy contributed to Ludlow’s own death in London later in the month.23 Ludlow, who died intestate, was buried at St. Andrew’s, Holborn on 1 Nov. following. Administration of his estate was granted to Edmund in 1647.24 Edmund was the only son to serve in Parliament; another son died at sea in 1650 while the youngest, also called Henry, was ancestor to the earls of Ludlow.
Family Life
Ludlow was born at Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, the son of Sir Edmund Ludlow and his second wife Lady Margaret Howard, widow of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon, and daughter of Sir Henry Manning, knight marshal of the Household. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 16 October 1607 aged 15 and graduated BA on 6 February 1609.[1] In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Heytesbury. He was re-elected MP for Heytesbury in 1621 and 1624. He inherited the estate of Maiden Bradley. In 1633 he was Sheriff of Wiltshire.
Ludlow died at the age of about 51 and was buried on 1 November 1643 at St Andrews, Holborn, London.
Ludlow married Elizabeth Phelips, daughter of Richard Phelips of Montacute, Somerset and had three daughters and six sons including Edmund, the regicide. Ludlow's half-brother also named Henry was an MP.[2]
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Edmund Ludlow (1617-1692) | 1617 Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom | 26 November 1692 Vivey, Vaud, Switzerland | |
| Robert Ludlow (1621-1643) | |||
| Nathaniel Ludlow (1624-1701) | |||
| Frances Ludlow (1626-1675) | |||
| Philip Ludlow (1628-) | |||
| Henry Ludlow (1629-1701) | 19 February 1629 Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom | 12 May 1701 St Bride Fleet Street, Greater London, England, United Kingdom | Leticia Bradley (1630-) |
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Henry Ludlow (c1577-1639) | 1677 Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom | 13 October 1639 England | Lettice West (1589-1645) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Henry Ludlow (1592-1643) | 1592 Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom | October 1643 | Elizabeth Phelps (1590-1650) |
| Edmund Ludlow (1595-1666) | |||
| Alice Ludlow (1598-) | |||
Residences
Notable Ancestors
Ludlow Family Ancestry
- George Ludlow (1504-1543), married to Edith Windsor (1515-1613)
- Edward I of England (1239-1307) - King of England, m. Eleanor of Castile (1202-1244) - See Plantagenet Family Line for a continuation of his ancestry.
- William I, King of England (1027-1087) - (aka: William the Conqueror) - In 1066 became first Norman king of England.
- Emporer Charlemagne (747-814) - King of the Franks and from 800 the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
See Also
- Henry Ludlow
- Ludlow Family
- Ludlow in England
- Ludlow Baronets
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Henry Ludlow (died 1643)
- Henry Ludlow the Younger, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Henry-Ludlow-the-younger-MP/4068318795550047840, retrieved 08 Dec 2023
- Henry Ludlow of Hill Deverill, History of Parliament Online, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ludlow-edmund-1548-1624, retrieved 30 Dec 2023
- Henry Ludlow at Find A Grave
- Ludlow Family Data Base
Parliamentary Succession Charts
| Parliament of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Sir William Eyre |
Member of Parliament for Heytesbury 1614–1624 With: Walter Gowen 1614 Sir Thomas Thynne 1621–1624 |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Berkeley |
| Preceded by Sir Francis Seymour |
Member of Parliament for Wiltshire 1640–1643 With: Sir James Thynne |
Succeeded by Hon. James Herbert |
References
- ^ Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 42, 1888
- ^ Bindoff, S. T.. "LUDLOW, Edmund (bef.1548-1624), of Hill Deverill; later of Maiden Bradley, Wilts.". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ludlow-edmund-1548-1624.