Individual Notes
Note for:   Lionel Frederick West,   ABT 1869 - 1929         Index

Individual Note:
     M.R.C.S., I.L.R.C.P. (Dr.)
1891 census: Banks St., Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire -
Hirst, Mary Ann age 64 Wife, b. Leeds, Yorkshire (Dr. Hirst from home)
Lionel Frederick West Nephew Age 23 Medical Student

Served in WWI in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a temporary Lieutenant, WO 372/21.

    1915 -living in Birmingham.
Surgeon in Birmingham, left Emily sometime after WWI and emigrated to Perth, Western Australia.

Individual Notes
Note for:   Charles Wilmot,   Jan 1670/1671 - 1681         Index

Individual Note:
     -3rd Earl of Rochester

Individual Notes
Note for:   Elizabeth Wilmot,   Jul 1674 - 1 Jul 1757         Index

Burial:   
     Place:             Saint Germain, Paris, Seine, France          

Individual Note:
     Three portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Archives.

Individual Notes
Note for:   Henry Wilmot,   26 Oct 1613 - 19 Feb 1656/1657         Index

Burial:   
     Place:   Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England

Individual Note:
     lst Earl of Rochester
Lieutenant-General of Horse, won Royalist victories and was exiled toParis for corresponding with Essex in an attempt to force a truce on King Charles I: Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the young Charles II, and forced into exile after the battle of Worcester, which he engaged in on the Royalist side under the alias "John Barlow".

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Note for:   John Wilmot,   1 Apr 1647 - 26 Jul 1680         Index

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     -Earl of Rochester, poet and rake.
-he epitomized the libertine and wit of the Restoration because he
continually indulged in women, wine, and food. He was raised
primarily by his mother because his father was engaged in battle
helping King Charles II. After helping the king escape from Scotland,
Wilmot was pronounded the Earl of Rochester, the title his son
inherited at the age of eleven after his father died.
-the real love of his life was the actress Elizabeth Barry, with whom
he had a daughter who died when a teenager.
-died in his early thirties, a burnt-out shell of a man

From the Somerset Archives:
5/21672 Lease for 99 years or 3 lives by John, Earl of Rochester, and Countess Elizabeth, his wife, to Gabriel Spreet of << Ash>> Priors, yeoman, of 7 acres of meadow known as Lancelett Meadow in the parish of Bishops Lydeard. [1 doc.]

WILMOT, JOHN (1647-1680) 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER, POET

        literary MSS
        for the location of these papers see:
        See: Index of Literary MSS vol 2 part 2

        John Hayward bequest includes books and mss concerning him
        Cambridge University: Kings College Modern Archive
        Centre
        Cambridge CB2 1ST

        autograph poems
        Nottingham University Library, Department of
        Manuscripts and Special Collections
        Hallward Library
        University Park
        Nottingham NG7 2RD
        Reference: PwV31-32
        NRA 7628 Cavendish-Bentinck papers rel to Sodom
        British Library, Manuscript Collections
        96 Euston Road
        London NW1 2DB
        Reference: Add MS 57732, Harley MS 7003

        MS poems
        Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
        121 Wall Street
        New Haven CT 06520
        NRA 18661 Osborn coll

FILE - Copy Royal Letters Patent dated 6 Nov. 1684 - ref. DD\SF/1140 - date: c1684
      hit[from Scope and Content] Granting to Anne, Eliz. & Mallet Wilmot, daus. & coheirs of John, late Earl of Rochester, by his. w. Eliz. the sole navigation of the river from Bridgwater to Taunton & from thence to Bradford Bridge, as far as Ham Mill & no further