Background
Penruddocke was the younger son of Colonel John Penruddocke (1619–1655), one of the leaders of the Penruddock uprising of 1655, by his father"s marriage to Arundel Freke, the daughter of John Freke, Esq., of Shrewton, Dorset.
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Thomas Penruddocke
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Education
Magdalen College.
Career
On 26 July 1666, Penruddocke matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, when his age was given as seventeen. In 1672, by a licence dated 9 July 1672, Penruddocke married Frances Hanham, daughter of John Hanham, Esq., of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, and they had at least nine children, John, Edward, Jane, Thomas, George, Charles, Arundel, Lucy, and Frances. In 1680, Thomas Thynne of Longleat gave Penruddocke a licence for hawking, hunting, fishing and fowling in Dinton, Wiltshire.
In 1683, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, commissioned Penruddocke as one of his Deputy Lieutenants.
Penruddocke went to Parliament again in 1689, as one of the members for Wilton of the famous Convention Parliament. This was the parliament which passed the Bill of Rights following the Glorious Revolution, inviting William and Mary to take the throne of King James World War II
Membership
Habeas Corpus Parliament]
The two had served together as members of parliament for Wilton in 1679, the "Habeas Corpus Parliament".
