William Baynham of Farringdon, London and Boxley, Kent, Esq.
- Born:
- Married: 12 Sep 1575, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, England 1
- Died: 5 Nov 1597, Fleet Street, London, Middlesex, England 2
- Buried: Boxley, Kent, England 2
 Research Notes:
In 1581 William Baynham, esq. was co-executor of the Will of his mother-in-law Jane Skynner of London, widow.
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Family and Education
Younger? son of William Baynham (d.1568) of Westbury-on-Severn, Glos. m. Martha (d. 1600), wid. of one Wheatley, 1s. Edmund.
Offices Held
Receiver-gen. Worcs., Salop, Herefs., Staffs., Worcester and Hereford 1575, Glos. by 1581; surveyor of crown lands, Worcs. 1575, Kent and Suss. 1590; j.p. Kent from c.1584.
Biography
Baynham—'an officer of her Majesty's in good trust'—probably secured his repeated returns for Much Wenlock through being related to Richard Horde, formerly recorder there. No evidence has been found that he had any personal connexion with the borough. Baynham was known to the Earl of Leicester and other members of the Dudley family. He may have acquired his lease of the rectory of Budbrooke, Warwickshire, through the Earl's influence with the town of Warwick, and the probability is that the lands he bought at Boxley, Kent, had at one time belonged to the Earl. As surveyor for Worcestershire, Baynham was paid £13 6s.8d. and for Kent and Sussex £36 13s.4d. In August 1596 he objected to paying ship money in London, though he clearly spent much of his time there, and it was there he died 5 Nov. 1597. He was buried at Boxley. Administration of his estate was granted to his widow and his son Edmund. 2
Marriage Information:
William married Martha Skinner, widow of William Wheatley, daughter of Anthony Skinner and Jane Billing, on 12 Sep 1575 in Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, England. (Martha Skinner was born in Shelfield Park, Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, England and was buried on 17 Jan 1600 in St Bride Fleet Street, City of London, England.)
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