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Sir
James Whitelocke,
SL (
28 November 1570 –
22 June 1632) was an
English judge
He was the son of
Richard Whitelocke, a
London merchant. Educated at
Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at
St John's College, Oxford, he became a fellow of his college and a
barrister. He was then engaged in managing the estates belonging to St John's College,
Eton College and
Westminster College, before he became recorder of
Woodstock and
member of parliament for the
borough in 1610.
In
1620, Whitelocke was made
Chief Justice of Chester, and was knighted; in 1624 he was appointed justice of the Court of
King's Bench. He died at
Fawley Court in
Buckinghamshire, near
Henley-on-Thames, an estate which he'd bought in
1616, on
22 June 1632. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Edward Bulstrode of
Hedgerley Bulstrode,
Buckinghamshire, and his son was the
parliamentarian Sir
Bulstrode Whitelocke.
Sir James was greatly interested in
antiquarian studies, and was the author of several papers which are printed in
Thomas Hearne's
Collection of Discourses (1771); his journal, or
Liber famelicus, was edited by John Bruce and published by the
Camden Society in 1858.
His elder brother
Edmund was implicated in the
Gunpowder Plot.
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