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SIR JAMES WHITELOCKE (1570-1632)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 606 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JAMES See also:WHITELOCKE (1570-1632)  , See also:English See also:judge, son of See also:Richard See also:Whitelocke, a See also:London See also:merchant, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:November 1570 . Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, he became a See also:fellow of his college and a See also:barrister . He was then engaged in managing the estates belonging to St John's College, See also:Eton College and See also:Westminster College, before he became See also:recorder of See also:Woodstock and member of See also:parliament for the See also:borough in 161o . In 162o Whitelocke was made See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:court of session of the See also:county See also:palatine of See also:Chester, and was knighted; in 1624 he was appointed justice of the court of See also:king's See also:bench . He died at Fawley Court, near See also:Reading, an See also:estate which he had bought in 1616, on the 22nd of See also:June 1632 . His wife, See also:Elizabeth, was a daughter of See also:Edward See also:Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode, See also:Buckinghamshire, and his son was Bulstrode Whitelocke . See also:Sir See also:James was greatly interested in antiquarian studies, and was the author of several papers which are printed in T . See also:Hearne's Collection of Discourses (1771); his See also:journal, or See also:Liber famelicus, was edited by John See also:Bruce and published by the See also:Camden Society in 1858 . Whitelocke's See also:elder See also:brother, See also:EDMUND WHITELOCKE (1565-1608), was a soldier in See also:France and later a courtier in See also:England . He was imprisoned because he was suspected of being concerned in the Gunpowdei See also:Plot, and although he was most probably See also:innocent, he remained for some See also:time in the See also:Tower of London . The soldier JOHN WHITELOCKE (1757-1833) was doubtless a descendant of Sir James Whitelocke . He entered the See also:army in 1778 and served in See also:Jamaica and in See also:San Domingo .

In r8o5 he was made a See also:

lieutenant-See also:general and inspector-general of recruiting, and in 1807 he was appointed to command an expedition sent to recover Buenos Aires from the Spaniards . An attack on the See also:city was stubbornly resisted, and then Whitelocke concluded an arrangement with the opposing general by which he abandoned the undertaking . This proceeding was regarded with See also:great disfavour both by the soldiers and others in See also:South See also:America and in England, and its author was brought before a court-See also:martial in 18o8 . On all the charges except one he was found guilty and he was dismissed from the service . He lived in retirement until his See also:death on the 23rd of See also:October 1833 .

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