FOXWIST, WILLIAM (1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament

Born at Caernarvon 1610, heir of Richard Foxwist by Ellen, daughter of William Thomas of Aber. In 1628 he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 1636, entered Lincolns Inn 14 February and was called to the Bar 17 May 1645. He became recorder of S. Albans; was elected (1649) bencher of Lincoln's Inn 6 February He was appointed in 1646 judge of the admiralty for North Wales; in 1655-9 he was puisne justice of Brecknock circuit; in 1660, judge advocate of Chester circuit; was M.P., Caernarvon 1647-8, Anglesey 1654-5, Swansea 1659, and S. Albans 1660; and acted as steward for manors of sequestered Royalists under the Committee for the Advance of Money. A moderate Parliamentarian and a supporter of the protectorate, he seems to have succeeded in making his peace at the Restoration. [See Thomas family of Coed Alun and Aber.] The will of William Foxwist, St. Albans, dated 1673, was proved that year.

Authors

• Professor Glyn Roberts, (1904 - 1962)
• Gareth Haulfryn Williams

Sources

• W. R. Williams, The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliest times to the present day, 1541-1895 (Brecknock 1895), 4
• W. R. Williams, The history of the Great Sessions in Wales, 1542-1830, together with the lives of the Welsh judges (Brecknock 1899), 60-1
• W. R. Williams, Old Wales a monthly magazine of antiquities for Wales and the Borders (Australia 1905-1907), i, 257-9, 378-9
• J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 354

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: William Foxwist

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q8009287

Published date: 1959

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