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,

William inherited an estate including property at Apley, Shropshire after his father's death in 1593,

He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1620. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth. He was knighted at Greenwich on 24 or 28 June 1621. In 1624 he was re-elected MP for Bridgnorth. He was elected MP for Bridgnorth again in 1626. He goes on to say that she continued to support him, making bequests to him in her will. His texts, which concern the promise that God will advance the temporal affairs of those who attend to the spiritual, are, he says, "to egge you on, whom God hath blessed with so large a portion of his bounty, unto those religious offices", and are an expansion of a lecture formerly delivered to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers when one of them was Master of the . He develops his theme to explore differences between their own theology and that of the Romanists.

Whitmore died before 24 January 1648 at the age of 75. His son Thomas Whitmore was an MP of Royalist sympathy and was created a baronet in 1641.

Family Sir William had children by both of his marriages. By the first, to Margaret Moseley, were

George Whitmore, died without issue Anne Whitmore (died 1666), married Sir Edmund Sawyer.

By the second marriage, to Dorothy Weld (who died in 1626), were

Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet, MP, son and heir (1612-1653), married Elizabeth (died 1666), daughter and heir of alderman Sir William Acton (1570-1651). Sir Thomas was succeeded by his son, Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet (1637-1699). William Whitmore, died young Richard Whitmore (1614-1667), of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, married Catherine (died 1673), daughter and coheir of Robert Deards, Esq., of London. Their son, Richard, of Lower Slaughter, married Anne, daughter of Sir John Weld of Willey, Shropshire.