Francis Wenman

Sir Francis Wenman (9 December 1599 – 26 June 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1628 and 1640.

[1] His father having died before his birth, he became the ward of the Anglo-Irish official Allen Apsley.

[1] Francis Wenman matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge as "Wainman" in Autumn 1615[3] and was knighted as "Wayneman" on 8 June 1618.

[6][7] According to his friend Edward Hyde, Wenman was ‘esteemed in Court’ and ‘equal to the greatest trust and employment, if he had been ambitious of it, or solicitous for it’.

He had ‘a competent estate’ in Oxfordshire, including the ancestral home of his family, and ‘his reputation of wisdom and integrity gave him an interest and credit in that country much above his fortune’.