William Whitmore (died 1648)

Sir William Whitmore (4 November 1573 – before 24 January 1648[1]) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1626.

[7] He is provisionally identified as the William Whitmore who matriculated sizar from Trinity College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1588,[8][1] and was certainly admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 February 1594/95.

[9] William inherited an estate including property at Apley, Shropshire after his father's death in 1593,[2] though he still had to reach majority before receiving it.

[6] William's inheritance was the foundation of his wealth, but it was as a Contractor for Crown Lands, 1609–1616, and a farmer of customs, in association with Sir Arthur Ingram and others, and then in further lending schemes, that he was able greatly to extend the original estate.

[1] He is thought to have been responsible for the arrangement of a surviving MS ledger in around 1617-1618 compiling transcripts of 181 evidences relating to his land-holdings, including lands acquired from Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park.