Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet (20 July 1610 – 2 March 1675) was an English scholar and royalist politician. He was also a Member of Parliament and an early member of the
Royal Society
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.
Life
He was admitted a
fellow-commoner
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Cambridge
...
at
Christ's College, Cambridge
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, on 18 April 1627. Isham was a man of culture, building a library at
Lamport Hall
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,
Northamptonshire
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.
Brian Duppa
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Life
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduati ...
was a frequent correspondent of his; and he kept in touch with
Seth Ward in Oxford.
He was a patron of
Alexander Ross.
Loans to the king as well as fines to the parliament had greatly injured the Isham estates, when in 1651, Sir Justinian succeeded to the
Isham baronetcy.
He had been in prison for a short time during 1649, as a
delinquent
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* Delinquent (royalist)
In 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, Parliament set up two committees: the Sequestration Committee, which confiscated the estates of the Royalists who fought against Parliament, and ...
, and he was now forced to compound for the estate of
Shangton
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in
Leicestershire
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. After the Restoration he was elected M.P. for
Northamptonshire
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in the parliament which met in 1661.
Gilbert Clerke
Gilbert Clerke (1626–c.1697) was an English mathematician, natural philosopher and Socinian theological writer.
Life
Born at Uppingham, Rutland, in 1626, he was a son of John Clerke, master of the school there. In 1641 he was admitted to Si ...
dedicated to him a 1662 work of
natural philosophy
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. With
Henry Power
Henry Power (1623–1668) was an English physician and experimenter, one of the first elected fellows of the Royal Society.
Life
Power matriculated as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1641 and graduated a Bachelor of Arts in 1644 ...
he was elected to the Royal Society, shortly after its 1663 charter came into force.
He died at Oxford, on 2 March 1675, and is buried in the family burial place on the north side of the chancel in
Lamport Church, where there is a Latin inscription to his memory.
Family
He was only son of
Sir John Isham (1582–1651), by his wife Judith, daughter of
William Lewin, of Otterden, Kent. When he was baptised on 3 February 1610, he took his Christian name from his mother's brother, Sir Justinian Lewin, knt.
Elizabeth Isham
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, known for her autobiography, was his sister.
Isham was married on 16 November 1634 to Jane, eldest daughter of Sir John Garrard, baronet, of Lamer, Hertfordshire; but his wife died in childbirth on 4 March 1638. Isham then wooed
Dorothy Osborne
Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627–1695) was an English writer of Letter (message), letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.
Life
Osborne was born at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England, the youngest of twelve children of Pet ...
; but she found him pompous.
Isham's second wife, whom he married in 1653, was Vere, daughter of Thomas, Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, by Mary, daughter of
Sir Thomas Egerton
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. Four children by her survived him:
Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet of Lamport (15 March 1656/57 – 26 July 1681) is known for a diary he wrote from 1671 to 1673 of his observations as a teenage member of the English aristocracy.
Life
Thomas Isham II, the eldest son and second chi ...
;
Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet
Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet (11 August 1658 – 13 May 1730) was an English landowner and Tory politician, who sat in the House of Commons almost continuously from 1685 until his death in 1730. He was the longest serving member, later terme ...
(d. 1730); Mary (d. 1679), who married Sir Marmaduke Dayrell of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire; and Vere, an erudite young mathematician who died in 1674, aged 19. There also survived him three daughters by his first wife: Elizabeth (d. 1734), who married Sir Nicholas L'Estrange of Hunstanton, Norfolk, second baronet, and nephew of
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of King ...
; Judith, who died unmarried, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey
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on 22 May 1679; and Susanna, who was married on 4 May 1656 to Sir Nicholas Carew, kt.
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1610 births
1675 deaths
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English MPs 1661–1679
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