Wadham Wyndham (judge)

Sir Wadham Wyndham (29 October 1609 – 24 December 1668), of Ilton, Somerset and St. Edmund’s College, Salisbury, was a Justice of the King's Bench from 1660 to 1668.

The Court sat at Clifford's Inn and focused primarily on deciding who would pay for a property to be rebuilt, and cases were heard and a verdict usually given within a day.

The judges worked for free, three to four days a week; without the Fire Court, legal wrangles could have dragged on for months, seriously delaying the rebuilding which was so necessary if London was to recover.

As a reward for their efforts, the artist John Michael Wright (c. 1617–1694) was commissioned to paint portraits of all 22 judges that had sat in the Fire Court.

By the late 1650s, his successful practice at the bar enabled him to purchase the manor of Norrington in Wiltshire, in 1658,[3] and also St Edmund's College in Salisbury, in the same county.