Edward kynaston biography
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kynaston, Edward
KYNASTON, EDWARD (1640?–1706), actor, son of Edward Kynaston or Kinaston, was born in London about 1640, and was apparently related to the Kynastons of Oteley in Shropshire. According to Downes and Gildon, he was Betterton's under-apprentice at the sign of the Bible, a bookseller's shop in Charing Cross. The shop was kept by one Rhodes, who had been a wardrobe-keeper to the king's company of comedians before the civil wars, and who in the year before the Restoration set up a company in the Cockpit in Drury Lane, where Kynaston first appeared in women's parts in 1659 [see Betterton, Thomas]. Kynaston probably left Rhodes's company when it migrated from the Cockpit to Salisbury Court. It is not known precisely when this occurred, but it is certain that Kynaston was acting with the more distinguished company known as ‘Old Actors’ at the Cockpit on 18 Aug. 1660, when Pepys saw him play a female part in the ‘Loyal Subject,’ and says ‘he made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life,’ adding, ‘after the play K
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KYNASTON, Edward (1709-72), of Bryngwyn, Mont. and Hardwick, Salop.
Family and Education
b. 6 Oct. 1709, s. of John Kynaston, M.P., by his 2nd w. Anne, da. of Thomas Harwood of Tern, sis. of Thomas Hill. educ. Eton 1725; St. John’s, Camb. 1726; L. Inn 1726. m. Victoria, da. and h. of Sir Charles Lloyd, 3rd Bt., of Garth, Mont., s.p. suc. bro. at Bryngwyn and Hardwick 1740, fa.-in-law at Garth 1743.
Offices Held
Biography
The Kynastons were a leading Tory family in Shropshire, yet Lord Powis, after 1748 leader of the Shropshire Whigs, never attempted to dislodge Kynaston, a nephew of his faithful follower Thomas Hill and used by them both as intermediary in negotiations with the Shropshire Tories.1 In Newcastle’s election lists of 1754 ‘Duke of Beaufort’ is placed against Kynaston’s name,2 and in the new Parliament he was classed as a Tory; in Bute’s list of December 1761 he is classed ‘Bute and Egmont’. The nature or origin of his connexion with Beaufort and Egmont is not known. Early in December 1762 Fox included him among the Members favourable to
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Roger secondly married Lady Elizabeth Grey of Powis Castle, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire in 1465. They had the following children:
Sir Roger Kynaston
Son of Griffinus Kynaston and Margaretta Hoord, father of Humfridus Kynaston and husband of Lady Elizabetha Grey
Roger was of Middle and Hordley, Shropshire born c.1433.
Roger was Constable of Denbigh Castle in 1454 and supported the Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses, particularly distinguishing himself during the battle of Bloreheath on 23rd September 1459 when “He vanquished and slew the Lord James Audley (descendant of the Touchet family) and took his arms, Ermine, a chevron gules, ever since borne quarterly by the Kynastons of Hordley” For a detailed description of the battle and Roger’s role in it see AttachmentRoger was actually summoned to the presence of the new King, Edward IV, some 18 months after his accession in 1461, and knighted and presented with the arms and certain land of Lord Audley
A month later, he fought against the King’s forces at Ludford near
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