Early Life
Anthony Gylby was probably born in the early 1600s (given that he married in 1637), son of Sir
George Gylby of
Stainton and
Elizabeth Fitzwiliam. He can't have been born after 1609 as that was when his father died. He appears in the Gilby pedigree of
FMG1.
There is a slight problem with this lineage in that his parents Elizabeth (and George) appear to have been born in the 1560s, so would have been quite old by the time Anthony was born. This causes an offset in the
Fitzwilliam line that causes it to be up to a century off compared to parallel lines. One explanation is that the source
1 for this pedigree has skipped a generation and George and Elizabeth were actually Anthony's grandparents, rather than parents. On the other hand, Anthony is described (below) as the 6th son, so if a few daughters are thrown in too, he could well be 18-20 years younger than the eldest child.
Family Life
Anthony married
Ruth Rogers (daughter of
Robert Rogers and
Elizabeth Sandford) c. 1637 in
Everton (Nottinghamshire). They had:
- Anthony, b. 1640, who married Elizabeth Scroggs
- Bridget, b. 1642
- Thomas, b. 1645
- William, b. 1654, who married Elizabeth Bluck
- Elizabeth
Other
From
Visitor UK:
Col Anthony Gylby was the first lessee [of Sunk Island] from 1668, he was Lieutenant of Hull Fort and an ardent Cavalier who died under something of a cloud accused of misappropriation of the fort's materials for use on his solitary island mansion.
From
History of Parliament Online:
Gilby, descended from a minor Lincolnshire gentry family, acquired a modest leasehold estate in Nottinghamshire by marrying an heiress. An active Royalist, he served under Lord Belasyse in the Newark garrison and signed the articles of surrender in 1646. In the second Civil War he was again in arms in the garrison of Pontefract, compounding on a nominal fine of £25 in 1650. Described by the local major-general as ‘a dangerous enemy’, he was imprisoned for complicity in the projected rising of 1655. By January 1660 he was in London, attempting to enlist Presbyterian support for the Restoration.
Gilby was returned in 1661 for Hull, where he was deputy to Belasyse, the governor. Although inactive in debate, and only once a teller, he was appointed to 170 committees, and, with his colleague Andrew Marvell, kept his constituents regularly informed of developments in the House. He served on the committee of 26 Nov. 1661 on the bill for the execution of those under attainder. In 1663 he helped to consider a petition from the loyal and indigent officers, and a bill to hinder the growth of Popery. He was listed as a court dependant in 1664. During the second Dutch war he took effective measures against conventicles in Hull by placing spies in every street, and suggested to Joseph Williamson that his presence was more important in the garrison ‘whilst the enemy is upon the coast’ than at Westminster. Sir Thomas Osborne listed him as a court dependant in 1669, when he was appointed to the committee to continue the earlier act against conventicles. He was one of the Members in debt to the crown in 1670, though only as surety for William Broxholme. He had no qualms about the harsh measures taken against Roman Catholics, telling his constituents that ‘they may thank themselves for it’, and evidently supported the bill to exclude them from Parliament ‘that now our laws will be made by those of our own religion’. He received the government whip in 1675, and was listed as an official. He served on the committees for the recall of British officers from the French service (10 Nov. 1675) and the Protestant education of the royal children (27 Mar. 1677). He was marked ‘thrice vile’ by Shaftesbury, and his name appeared on both lists of the court party in 1678, though in one of them it has been read as ‘Gibbs’. His name was mentioned by the informer Bedloe, once Belasyse’s servant, in his evidence to the House on the Popish Plot, and in his only recorded speech (assigned by Anchitell Grey to ‘Col. Rigby’) he demanded ‘a particular examination, that honest men may be vindicated, and others punished’.6
After the dissolution Gilby applied by letter to the corporation of Hull offering his services in the coming Parliament, but was turned down. The ordnance commissioners discovered that he had embezzled £650 Worth of lead and 12,000 bricks belonging to the Hull garrison. He was dismissed from his posts, but not otherwise proceeded against, ‘in consideration of his loyal and eminent services’. He was buried at Everton on 27 Apr. 1682, the only Member of his family to sit in Parliament.
Footnotes
[1]
Familiae Minorum Gentium by Joseph Hunter, London 1894-1896, Volume 4, page 1227
Abt 1605 - Abt 1682 (~ 77 years)
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