Henry Whitfield

Henry Whitfield (1619–1688) was an English lawyer who moved to Ireland, where he was elected a member of the Irish House of Commons, and apparently had financial interests in Barbados.

Life Baptised on 17 June 1619 at the church of St Giles Cripplegate in London and recorded as age 16 in the 1634 Visitation of London, he was the second son of Sir Ralph Whitfield, a landowner, MP and prominent lawyer in London, Having made his will on 26 September 1688, which was later registered in Barbados where he presumably had financial interests, he died in Dublin on 26 October 1688. married Elizabeth Osborn but had no children. His father's sister Dorothy, widow of John Fotherley whose father Sir Thomas Fotherley died in the 1692 Jamaica earthquake, left him the manor of Rickmansworth and the estate there of Bury Park. Ralph (died 1694) married his first cousin Arabella, daughter of his uncle Sir Herbert Whitfield, and had two known children: Ralph, who in 1710 married Felicia Johnson, and Maria. Henry settled at Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire, where in 1689 he married Abigail Gape from St Albans. Their son Henry inherited the manor of Rickmansworth and estate of Bury Park from his childless uncle Temple.