Richard Birde (died 1613) of Whitminster, Gloucestershire, was an English bureaucrat and landowner.
His origins are unknown. He was described as 'Richard Byrde or Beard of Wheatenhurst(Whitminster)' of a property in westgate Street, Gloucester in 1570. [1]
He was town clerk of Gloucester from 1579 to 1595. [2] By 1591 he held the manor-house of Wheatenhurst, two mills and 81 acres of demesne lands. [3]
He was an MP for Gloucester in 1593; before he was elected, he promised to renounce his wages as town clerk. [2]
He died at the beginning of 1613, survived by his wife Margaret (d. 1621). [4] His estate was inherited by his grandson Thomas Lloyd (d. 1658), son of his daughter Sibyl. [3]
Whitminster is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, on the A38 trunk road approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Gloucester and 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Stroud. The parish population at the 2011 census was 881. The hamlet of Wheatenhurst is signposted from the A38 at Whitminster. Whitminster is close to Junction 13 of the M5 motorway, with Bristol, South Wales and the south Midlands all within an hour's drive.
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