William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington [SEP] date of birth
William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington
William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington (11 July 16103 September 1651) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642 and was created a peer in 1643. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War and was killed in battle in 1651.
Biography.
Widdrington was born on 11 July 1610, the son and heir of Sir Henry Widdrington of Widdrington, Northumberland and his wife Mary Curwen, daughter of Sir Nicholas Curwen.
William Widdrington
William Widdrington may refer to:
- William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington (1610–1651), English politician and soldier
- William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington (died 1675)
- William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington (1656–1695)
- William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington (1678–1743), English peer and supporter of the Stuart claim to the English Crown
See also.
- Baron Widdrington