Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough ( 1624 - 1697 )

Baptism: St Anne's Blackfriars, London, England, Europe (18 October 1623) Death: 19 June 1697 Burial: Parish church of Turvey, Bedfordshire, England, Europe (29 June 1697) Profession: Diplomat, soldier, seaman, colonial governor Education: Eton College (1635-1638); tutored by Thomas Raymond in France Career: Served in the Parliamentary Army (1642-1643); deserted to the King's Army at Oxford and given command of a regiment of horse; wounded at the Battle of Newbury (1643); went to France; returned and compounded for his estates (1646); Raised the Royal Standard at Dorking as part of the Earl of Holland's uprising (1648); wounded, fled to Antwerp; recompounded for his estates (1649); Governor of Tangier (1661-1662, recalled December 1662); served in the Navy against the Dutch (1664-1665, 1672); joint Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (1666-1673); Lord lieutenant of the West Division of Northamptonshire (1673-1678), the whole county (1678-1688), Rutland (1688) ; Chief Commissioner to regulate the household expenses of the Duke of York (1667); Groom of the Stole to the Duke of York (1670) later James II (1685); ;Recorder of Northampton (1672-1672); Ambassador extraordinary to Innsbruck and then Modena to arrange a marriage for the Duke of York (1673); Colonel of a regiment of foot (1673-1674); Privy Councillor (1674); Deputy Earl Marshal (1676); deprived of his offices on suspicion of his complicity in the Popish Plot (1680) but restored to them (1683); carried the sceptre at the coronoation of James II (1685); first gentleman of the bedchamber (1685); Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Horse (1685-1688); high steward and chief bailiff to Quenn Mary (1686); received into the Roman Catholic Church (1687); imprisoned in the Tower after his patron James II was deposed (1688-1690); impeached for High Treason (1689) released but held under house arrest on suspicion of treasonable practices (1696); remained a Jacobite Honours: KG 1685 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 18/11/1663 Proposers: Viscount William Brouncker Date of ejection/withdrawal: 9 August 1682.