Henry Wroth

Who is Henry Wroth?

Sir Henry Wroth, second son of Henry, Sir Robert Wroth's youngest son, acquired some fame as a royalist during the civil wars, was a ‘pensioner’ of Charles I of England, and was knighted at Oxford on 15 September 1645. He compounded with the parliament for 60l.. He was granted land in Ireland and succeeded to Durrants on the death of his uncle John. In 1664 Sir Henry Wroth with a party of horse escorted Colonel John Hutchinson from the Tower of London on the road to Sandown Castle, Kent. Sir Henry Wroth was a patron of Fuller, who dedicated to him his 'Pisgah Sight,' 1650. Fuller often visited him at Durrants. He died on 22 September 1671. He married Anne, daughter of William, lord Maynard of Wicklow. His second daughter Jane married in 1681 William Nassau de Zuylestein, 1st Earl of Rochford.