James Calthorpe (Roundhead)


James Calthorpe of Ampton who was Sheriff of Suffolk, in 1656, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was knighted at Whitehall, 10 December, in the same year.

Biography

Calthorpe was the third son, and the only one of ten children of Sir Henry Calthorpe and his wife Dorothy to survive to adulthood. He was educated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
He and was Sheriff of Suffolk, in 1656, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was knighted at Whitehall, 10 December, in the same year.
James Calthorpe survived his father by twenty-one years, being interred in the chancel of Ampton Church the same day of the month on which Sir Henry died, 1 August 1658.

Family

Calthorpe married Dorothy, second daughter of Sir James Reynolds, of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, and sister to Sir John Reynolds, Commissary-General in Ireland, on whose death she became his sole heiress). They had three sons and six daughters who were still living when he died in August 1658:
After Calthorpe's death, Dorothy remarried. On 15 June 1662, she married Sir Algernon May of Old Windsor, Berkshire, with whom she had several children.