Sir William Backhouse, 1st Baronet

Sir William Backhouse, 1st Baronet (died 22 August 1669) was created a baronet in the Baronetage of England on 9 November 1660.[2] He was the son of the merchant Nicholas Backhouse of Widford, Hertfordshire, who served as Sheriff of London, and his wife Christian Williams.[3]

Backhouse married in 1662, as her second husband, his cousin Flower Bishop née Backhouse (1641–1700), heiress of William Backhouse of Swallowfield; her father had died that year.[4] He was High Sheriff of Berkshire for 1664–5. He died without issue, and the baronetcy became extinct in 1669.[1] Flower married, thirdly, Henry Hyde, Lord Cornbury.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. Harrison & sons. p. 38.
  2. ^ Burke, John (1844). A genealogical and heraldic History of the extinct and dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland: By John and John Bern. Burke. John Russ Smith. p. 31.
  3. ^ Berkshire Archaeological Society (1891). Quarterly Journal of the Berks Archaeological and Architectural Society. Rivers and Slaughter. p. 109.
  4. ^ a b Speake, Jennifer. "Backhouse, William (1593–1662)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/985. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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