Background
Strode was the eldest son of Colonel William Strode, Junior (1589–1666) who was an English Parliamentarian officer, an Member of Parliament (Ilchester. 1640, 1646-1648), and a very wealthy cloth merchant from Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
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Career
His mother was Joan Barnard (1607–1649), heiress of the equally wealthy Barnard family. William III inherited estates at Glantonbury Manor and at Barrington Court from his father in his native county of Somerset. At the latter he built Strode House (1674).
His three marriages were to Elizabeth Rivett (1656), Margaret Osborne (1675) and, thirdly, to Jane Ellys.
William III served as Member of Parliament for Ilchester in 1679. In 1686, after the disastrous Battle of Sedgemoor and the execution of the Duke, William was pardoned for his treason.
There is no evidence that anyone on the William Strode III estates was executed, but remains of many dead (because less affluent) Somerset rebels were displayed at this time of the “Bloody Assizes”.
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William Strode III (1622 in London — 19 February 1694 in Barrington, Somerset, England) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament (1679, Ilchester), and aider of the Duke of Monmouth in the Monmouth Rebellion (1685).
