James Gresham (born about 1617 – d Haslemere 1689) was an English politician in the second half of the 17th century.Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
Gresham was born in Fulham in about 1617. He came to live in Haslemere in 1650. He was called to the bar in 1652. He became a JP in 1660 and in 1676 he presented an almshouse to the town.
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