Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet

William Fermor
Born	1621
Died	14 May 1661
Nationality	English

Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet (sometimes written as Farmer or Fermour) (1621 – 14 May 1661), was an officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War. He stood for election as a Member of Parliament after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, but died before a decision could be reached on whether he or another candidate had been elected.

William Fermor was the eldest son of Sir Hatton Fermor, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, by his second wife, Anna, daughter of Sir William Cockayne, lord mayor of London. Sir Hatton Fermor, the great-grandson of Richard Fermor, was knighted by James I in 1603, and died in 1640, when Dame Anna applied for the wardship of her son, who was underage. William was born at Cokayne House, Old Broad Street, London, and was baptized on 7 November 1621 at St Peter le Poer. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1636 but did not take a degree.

The year after his father's death, on 6 September 1641, William was created a baronet, by King Charles I, who also gave him the command of a troop of horse, and afterwards made him a Privy Councillor to Charles, Prince of Wales. He was appointed a commissioner of array for Northamptonshire in 1642, and served as a captain of the cavalry with the royalist forces at the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642, remaining in the army until 1645.

Fermor lived peaceably, though with greatly diminished means, at Easton Neston during the Commonwealth. He had to compound for his estates to the amount of £1,400, being allowed, however, to collect his own rents on condition of paying them in to the use of the government. In 1651, the authorities having discovered that Fermor had four or five years before married Mary, daughter of Hugh Perry of London, and widow of Henry Noel, second son of Viscount Camden, who brought him an estate of £300, they obliged him to compound for that also.

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