Arnold Braemes

Sir Arnold Braemes (3 October 1602 – 13 November 1681) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

Braemes (Brames, Braems) was the son of Charles Braemes, a wealthy Dover merchant, and his wife Josina Spike of London. His family was of Flemish descent, his Huguenot great-grandfather, Jasper Braemes, having arrived from Dunkirk in the reign of Queen Mary.[1] He became a merchant at Dover. He was a Royalist and compounded locally for $800.[2] He was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys and accompanied Pepys in the Restoration (1660) of Charles II. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Dover in the Convention Parliament.[1] He was knighted on 27 May 1660 by Charles II two days before his reign officially started.[3] He was the first manager of the Dover Harbour Board.[4]

Braemes lived at Bridge Place at Bridge, Kent. He died at the age of 79.

  1. ^ a b History of Parliament Online - Braemes, Arnold
  2. ^ Nicholas Ferrar, Sir Cheney Culpeper, David R. Ransome, Mark Greengrass, John Trevor Cliffe Seventeenth-century political and financial papers
  3. ^ Knights of England
  4. ^ Bridge Parish Council - A Guide to the History of some of the Buildings in Bridge Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine