William Whitmore

Sir William Whitmore (4 November 1573 – before 24 January 1648) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1626. Parents, brothers and sisters Whitmore was the eldest son, and heir, of William Whitmore (died 1593), citizen and Haberdasher of London, and his wife Anne Bond (died 1615), daughter of Alderman William Bond, Haberdasher (died 1576). Their children were: Sir William Whitmore (born 1573) Sir Thomas Whitmore, died 1612 Sir George Whitmore, born after 1572, died 1654 Elizabeth Whitmore, married Sir William Craven (1548-1618) Anne Whitmore, married F. Baber, of Chute, Wiltshire Margaret Whitmore, married Sir John St John, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire Mary Whitmore (c. 1575–1652), married Sir Charles Montagu of Boughton Francis Whitmore, married Sir John Weld (1582-1622) of Arnolds, Edmonton, Middlesex Jane, married Nathaniel Still, Esq., son of Bishop John Still Career William Whitmore and his younger brother (Sir) George Whitmore, Haberdasher, both had public civic careers in London. He is provisionally identified as the William Whitmore who matriculated sizar from Trinity College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1588, and was certainly admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 February 1594/95.