Daniel Blagrave
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Daniel Blagrave (1603–1668) was a prominent resident of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. He was Member of Parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Reading over several periods between 1640 and 1660, and was also one of the signatories of King Charles I's death warrant.<ref name=DNB>Template:Cite DNB</ref>
He was the son of fourth Alexander Blagrave of Reading and is wife Margaret. Joseph Blagrave, the astrologer, was his younger brother.<ref name=Visit>Template:Cite book</ref> Daniel Blagrave was educated at Reading School<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and trained to be a lawyer.<ref name=DNB /> The mathematician John Blagrave of Southcote Lodge, was his uncle and Daniel succeeded his uncle and father in the lease of the property.<ref name=VCH>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Hull, a London merchant with whom he had several children. Their son, also Daniel, matriculated at St John's College, Oxford in 1650 and became a Middle Temple barrister in 1656.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On the outbreak of the English Civil War his family were on the side of Parliament. During the siege of Reading, he permitted Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex to make his headquarters at Southcote Manor, the home of Daniel's elder brother John.<ref name=VCH /> He was Recorder of Reading from 1645 to 1656 and again from 1658.<ref name=Coates>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1654 he, his wife and his son Daniel were all summoned to appear as witnesses before the commission examining the alleged heterodoxy of John Pordage, towards whom Blagrave was apparently sympathetic.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
During the Commonwealth, Daniel Blagrave held various commissions and posts, and is said to have become a very wealthy man as a consequence.<ref name=DNB /><ref name=Coates /> His acquisitions included Cardiff Hall, an estate in the parish of St Ann Jamaica.<ref name=Scott>Template:Cite book</ref>
On the restoration of King Charles II, Daniel Blagrave fled the country and settled at Aachen, in what is now Germany, where he died in 1668.<ref name=DNB /> His estate having been forfeited on his attainder, his wife Elizabeth petitioned the House of Commons for support in June 1660.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His descendants retained his Jamaican estate.<ref name=Scott />