Henry Noel

Henry Noel (1642 – 20 September 1677) was an English politician during the reign of Charles II. A younger son of Viscount Campden, he inherited a large estate from an uncle in infancy. Returned as a court candidate for Stamford in an expensive by-election, he died less than a year later.

Early life Henry Noel was born in 1642. He was the second son of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden by his third wife, Hon. Hester Wotton. He was baptized on 23 October 1642 at Exton, Rutland.

Career In 1643, he inherited Luffenham Hall, in North Luffenham, Rutland, from his uncle Henry, who died a prisoner of the Parliamentarians. He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1660, and was considered for the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak at the Restoration, his income being estimated at £1,000 per year.

In 1663, Noel was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Rutland, and to the commission of assessment for that county. In 1665, he was appointed to the commission for the enclosure of Deeping Fen, and was made a freeman of Portsmouth in 1668. In 1669, he was appointed a justice of the peace for Rutland.

Noel was appointed to the commission of assessment for Lincolnshire that year, but probably not to any committees in the Cavalier Parliament.

Personal life and death On 14 May 1671, he married Elizabeth Wale (d. 11 January 1681), the daughter and coheir of Sir William Wale (d. 1676), Vintner and alderman of London. They had one daughter, Juliana Noel, who married Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington.

Noel died on 20 September 1677. He was survived by his daughter, but the Luffenham estate was entailed and passed to his half-brother, Hon. Baptist Noel.