Richard Kilburne
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Richard Kilburne | |
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| Born | 1605  |
| Died | 15 November 1678 (aged 72–73) |
| Occupation | Lawyer, topographer |
Richard Kilburne (1605 – 15 November 1678) was an English lawyer and antiquarian. He published in 1659 A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent.
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Kilburne was born in 1605, the fifth and youngest son of Isaac Kilburne of London, and Mary, daughter of Thomas Clarke of Saffron Walden, Essex. His father's family originally came from Kilburn in Yorkshire. He was baptised on 6 October 1605 at St Mary Woolchurch Haw in London.[2][3]
He entered Staple Inn, and became a chancery lawyer. By 1631 he had entered into possession of Fowlers, an estate in the parish of Hawkhurst, Kent. As a J.P. for the county he was deputed for three or four years during the Commonwealth to celebrate weddings at Hawkhurst without sacred rites, but married only two couples. In 1650 he appears as steward of the manors of Brede and Bodiam, Sussex.[2] Edward Hasted wrote in 1798: "He was a man of some eminence in his profession as a lawyer, having been five times principal of Staples-inn, and of as worthy a character, both as a magistrate and an historian."[4]
Kilburne died on 15 November 1678, aged 73, and was buried in the north chapel of St Laurence's Church in Hawkhurst, where there is a ledger stone to his memory, in Latin.[2][5]
