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Anthony Aucher

For his father, see Anthony Aucher (the elder).

Sir Anthony Aucher, 1st Baronet (1614 – 31 May 1692)[1] was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. He supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.[2]

Aucher was the son of Sir Anthony Aucher (c. 1586–1637) and his wife Hester Collett, daughter of Peter Collett.[3] His father was the son of Edward Aucher (d. 14 February 1568), and grandson of Anthony Aucher (d. 9 January 1558), an agent of Henry VIII, who in 1547, received the Manor of Plumford in the parish of Ospringe from Edward VI of England.[4][5]

Aucher was knighted at Whitehall on 4 July 1641,[6] however was imprisoned two years later for his involvement in the anti-parliamentarian Petition of Kent.[7] He had to stay in Winchester House for nine months and was then released.[7] In 1660 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury in the Convention Parliament.[8] On 4 July 1666, he was made a baronet, of Bishopsbourne, in the County of Kent.[9]

By 1635, he married firstly Elizabeth Hatton, daughter of Sir Robert Hatton.[7] She died in 1648,[10] and Aucher married secondly Elizabeth Hewytt, daughter of Robert Hewytt at St Bride's Church in London on 13 October 1681.[7] He had six sons and one daughter by his first wife,[7] who died all in his lifetime,[10] and two sons and two daughters by his second wife.[10] Archer was buried in Bourne, Kent and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest surviving son Anthony.[7] His other son, John, was a prebend at Canterbury.[11]

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "British History Online". Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Aucher (Agar, Archer), Sir Anthony (c.1586–1637), of Bishopsbourne, Kent, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. ^ Hasted, Edward (1798). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. 6. Institute of Historical Research: 499–531. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  5. ^ Finda-a-Grave.com: Sir Anthony Aucher (1500-1558), ed. by Todd Whitesides, retrieved 4 November 2017. Excerpts: Knight of Bishopsbourne and Otterden, Kent. Marshall of Calais, Governor of Guisnes, Master of the Jewel House of the Tower of London. One of the agents of King Henry VIII in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A military commander at the siege of Calais, where he was wounded and died of those wounds two days after the surrender of that city. Administration of his estate was granted to his son Edward.
  6. ^ Shaw, William Arthur (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. II. London: Sherratt and Hughes. p. 209.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "ThePeerage - Sir Anthony Aucher, 1st Bt". Retrieved 20 February 2007.
  8. ^ History of Parliament Online - Aucher, Anthony
  9. ^ Courthope, William (1835). Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England. London: G. Woodfall. p. 10.
  10. ^ a b c Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary. p. 28.
  11. ^ Cooper, Thompson (1885). "Aucher, John" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 246.

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