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Members Marvell – Quicke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2023
Summary
Marvell, Andrew (1621-78), of Whitehall, Westminster.
Kingston-Upon-Hull 1659, 1660, 1661-16 Aug. 1678
b. 31 Mar. 1621, 1st s. of Andrew Marvell of the Charterhouse, Sculcoates, Yorks. and 1st w. Anne (bur. 28 Apr. 1638), da. of George Pease of Flamborough, Yorks. educ. Hull g.s. c.1629; Trinity, Camb. 14 Dec. 1633, BA 27 Feb. 1639; travelled abroad (Holland, France, Italy, Spain) c.1642/3-bef. Nov. 1647. unm. suc. fa. 23 Jan. 1641; d. 16 Aug. 1678.
Central: jt. Latin sec. 2 Sept. 1657-?Apr. 1660. Sec. to Charles Howard*, 1st earl of Carlisle, on embassy to Utd. Provinces, May 1662-Mar. 1663; to Muscovy, Sweden and Denmark, June 1663-Jan. 1665.
Civic: freeman, Kingston-upon-Hull 28 Dec. 1658-d.
Local: commr. assessment, Kingston-upon-Hull 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677; poll tax, 1660; sewers, 14 Jan. 1668; recusants, Yorks. (E. Riding) Mar. 1675.
Mercantile: elder bro. Trinity House, 8 May 1674-d.; jun. warden, 27 May 1678-d.
Estate: in 1641, inherited a house and 50 acres of copyhold land in Meldreth, Cambs. which he mortgaged for £260, and had sold by 1648.
Addresses: Cowcross Street, Clerkenwell, Mdx. (1642); lodgings in the Palace of Whitehall (1657-9).
Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1655-60; oil on canvas, B. van der Helst, c.1660; oil on canvas, attrib. G. Kneller; oil on canvas, J. Howe, 1705; line engraving, unknown, 1681.
Will: admon. 31 Mar., 30 Sept. 1679.
Marvell, like his friend and fellow poet John Milton, derived from relatively humble origins. Although descended from a venerable Cambridgeshire family, he was the first of his line – and would be the last – to sit in Parliament. His grandfather, a Cambridgeshire yeoman, had left his native county to join his eldest son (Marvell’s father) at Hull in 1627, leaving unpaid his £2 assessment for the Forced Loan. It was Marvell’s father, Andrew Marvell senior, who established the family at Hull. Having taken holy orders, he began his ministry in the East Riding, where his reputation as a preacher brought him to the attention of the region’s largest and wealthiest audience for godly sermons, the townspeople of Hull. In 1624, he was appointed lecturer of Hull’s principal municipal church – Holy Trinity – and master of the Charterhouse Hospital in nearby Sculcoates.
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- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1640-1660 [Volume VII]Members, Marvell – Quicke, pp. 1 - 1014Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2023