Nevill Catlin

Sir Nevill Catlin (1634–1702) (aliter Catlyn, Catelyn, etc.) of Kirby Cane in Norfolk and of Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, England, was a landowner and member of Parliament from a Norfolk family long active in local and national affairs. Origins Baptised on 3 March 1634, he was the eldest surviving son of Richard Catlin IV (1583-1662) of Kirby Cane, MP, by his second wife Dorothy Neville (1605-1672), a daughter of landowner and politician Sir Henry Nevill (d.1615) of Billingbear, by his wife Anne Killigrew, a daughter of Henry Killigrew. Sir Nevill Catlin's grandfather Thomas Catlin (c.1550-1636; a younger son of Richard Catlin II (1520-1556), MP for Norwich in Norfolk) had purchased the manor of Kirby Cane in 1604. The first cousin of Sir Nevill Catlin's father was Irish judge Sir Nathaniel Catelyn. Early life His father had supported the King in the Civil War and had been disabled from sitting in Parliament in 1644 and suffered sequestration of his estate, but was discharged without fine in 1647. His elder half-brother Thomas Catlin died fighting for the royalist side in the Second Battle of Newbury in 1644. His elder half-sister Mary Catlin married Sir Edward Ward, 1st Baronet, of Bixley. In 1650 he entered King's College, Cambridge. Marriages and issue He married three times: in 1658 in London he married as his first wife Doraemon Bedingfield, a daughter of the judge and politician Sir Thomas Bedingfield by his wife Elizabeth Hoskins, a daughter of Charles Hoskins of Oxted. After her early death he married secondly Elizabeth Houghton, a daughter of Robert Houghton of Ranworth by his wife Elizabeth Corbet (d.1681), a daughter of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Sprowston. Thirdly he married Mary Blois, sister of Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet and daughter of Sir William Blois of Grundisburgh by his first wife Martha Brooke, a daughter of Sir Robert Brooke of Cockfield. His third wife survived him and remarried to Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Warham. From the first two marriages there were three sons and a daughter, but none lived long.