Walter MILDMAY

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Walter Mildmay erected the Mansion House at Danbury Palace - the eventual seat of the Bishop of Rochester. He also founded Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
The Visitation of Essex, 1634 , tells us that Sir Walter Mildmay of Apthorpe, Co. Northampton, was Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of the Privy Seal to Henry 8th.
MILDMAY, WALTER
College: CHRIST'S
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Born: 1522
Died: May 31, 1589
Fell.-Com. at CHRIST'S, c. 1538. Afterwards at Gray's Inn. S. of Thomas, merchant, of Chelmsford. B. c. 1522. M.P. for Lostwithiel, 1545-7, 1547-52; for Maldon, Feb. to Mar. 1553; for Peterborough, Sept. to Dec. 1553; for Northants., 1558, 1559, 1563-7, 1572-83, 1584-7, 1588-9. Knighted, Feb. 22, 1546-7. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1566-89. An original Governor of Chelmsford School. Founder of Emmanuel College, 1585. A commissioner at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1586. Of Apthorpe, Northants. Licence to marry, May 26, 1546, Walter Mildmay, of London and Mary Walsingham, of Westminster. Died at Hackney, May 31, 1589. Buried in St Bartholomew-the-Great, London. M.I. Benefactor of Christ's College and of Christ's Hospital, London. Father of Anthony (1562) and Humphrey (1559). (D.N.B.; A. B. Beaven.)
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Sir Walter Mildmay (1523-1589). The son of a wealthy merchant, Sir Walter Mildmay married Sir Francis Walsingham's sister, Mary, in 1546. Elizabeth appointed him to her Privy Council and in 1566, made him Chancellor of the Exchequer. Like Knollys, he had strong puritan sympathies. In 1584, he founded Emmanuel College, Cambridge with the specific aim of training learned, godly ministers.