Christopher Wandesford was an English administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629.
11 Facts About Christopher Wandesford
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Christopher Wandesford was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the last months of his life.
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Christopher Wandesford was then returned for Richmond in 1625 and 1626 and Thirsk in 1628.
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Christopher Wandesford's rise to importance was due primarily to his close friendship with Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, who was his distant cousin.
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Christopher Wandesford said that he went to Ireland not out of ambition, but simply out of his affection for Wentworth.
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Christopher Wandesford sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Kildare in the Irish Parliaments of 1634 and 1639 and was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
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Christopher Wandesford had married Alice, the only daughter of Sir Hewett Osborne and his wife Joyce Fleetwood, and sister to Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet, vice-president, under Wentworth, of the Council of the North.
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Christopher Wandesford's younger daughter Alice Thornton is still remembered for her Autobiography, first published in 1875, which is a valuable source for her father's life and career.
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Defence was a priority for Christopher Wandesford, who built a castle in Castlecomer sometime between 1635 and 1640.
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Christopher Wandesford had been granted Castlecomer after he argued that the O'Brennans or Brennans who had been there since 1200 held the area without legal right.
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The Christopher Wandesford family were influential in Leinster, lending military aid to suppress the Irish rebellion of 1798 in Enniscorthy.