About Nicholas Delves
Lived 1618 – 1690 (aged 71). Nicholas Delves was an English politician.
Nicholas Delves (2 December 1618 – 3 November 1690) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
Delves was the son of Thomas Delves, a grazier of Hollington, Sussex. In 1635, he was apprenticed to a Merchant Taylor of London and himself became a merchant of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. His brother Thomas Delves was a Baron of Dover In 1659, Delves was elected Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was Master of the Merchant Taylors in 1662 and 1663 In 1664 he brought Titus Oates to Merchant Taylors' School as a free Scholar. He was Deputy-Governor of the Irish Society in 1668-9.
Delves died at the age of 71
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English politician (1618-1690)
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Nicholas Delves was born on 2 December 1618.
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Nicholas Delves died on 3 November 1690.
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Nicholas Delves was a politician.
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