Timothy Baldwin

Sir Timothy Baldwin (1620–1696), was an English academic and lawyer.

Biography

Baldwin was the younger son of

royalist he was deprived of his fellowship by the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1648, but an application on his behalf to the wife of Thomas Kelsey, deputy-governor of the city of Oxford, accompanied by "certain gifts", secured his speedy reinstatement. In 1652 he was awarded Doctor of Civil Law

. He is mentioned by Wood in his autobiography (ed. Bliss, p. xxv) as joining in 1655 a number of Royalists "who esteem'd themselves either virtuosi or wits" in encouraging an Oxford apothecary to sell "coffey publickly in his house against All Soules Coll".

At the

College of Civilians.^[3] In 1661, he resigned his fellowship, and was nominated chancellor of the Dioceses of Hereford and Worcester. For twelve years, from 1670 to 1682, he was a Master in Chancery (Foss's Judges, vii. 8). He was knighted in July 1670 and was then described as of Stoke Castle, Shropshire. In 1679–80 he was acting as one of the clerks in the House of Lords, and actively engaged in procuring evidence against the five lords charged with a treasonable Catholic conspiracy. At the time of his death in 1696, he held the office of steward of Leominster.^[4]

Literary work

Baldwin was the author of "The Privileges of an Ambassador, written by way of letter to a friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Ambassador", 1654. This very rare tract treats of the charge of

High Court of Admiralty

, 1663' Baldwin contributed a brief preface to this work dated "Doctors' Commons, 25 February 1663".

Family

Baldwin married firstly Lady Ellen Norton, widow of Sir George Norton of Abbots Leigh, Briston, and daughter of Sir William Owen of Condover. He married secondly Mary Acton, widow of Nicholas Acton and daughter of Gerard Skrymshire of Aqualate.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain, Volume 3
^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51–78. Date accessed: 16 April 2011
^ Coote's English Civilians, p. 84
^ Luttrell's Brief Relation, iv. 93

"Baldwin, Timothy" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Baldwin, Timothy". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[Burke-1] John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain, Volume 3

[2] 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Baal-Barrow', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 51–78. Date accessed: 16 April 2011

[3] Coote's English Civilians, p. 84

[4] Luttrell's Brief Relation, iv. 93

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