Walter Norborne was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War

English Civil War

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Norborne was the son of John Norborne of Hilmarton, Wiltshire.

In April 1640, Norborne was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Calne

Calne (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the Short Parliament

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. He supported the King in the Civil War and was fined £380 by the Parliament as a result.

Norborne died in 1659, and according to his epitaph, his loyalty to Church and State provoked the people of Calne to some act of violence at his funeral. He was buried in the north transept of the church, where there is a monumental tablet with an epitaph written in Latin and Greekby Thomas Pierce

Thomas Pierce

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, President of Magdalen College Oxford.

Norborne married Mary Chivers, daughter of Henry Chivers of Quemerford and his wife Elizabeth Seacole of Milton, Oxfordshire. His son Walter

Walter Norborne (died 1684)

Walter Norborne was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1679 and from 1681 to 1684. He was killed in a duel at the age of 28....

was later MP for Calne until he was killed in a duel.