Nicholas Delves

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Nicholas Delves (2 December 1618 – 3 November 1690) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.

Delves was the son of Thomas Delves, a grazier of Hollington, Sussex.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/delves-nicholas-1618-90 History of Parliament Online - Delves Nicholas] In 1635, he was apprenticed to a Merchant Taylor of London and himself became a merchant of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67242 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1651-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 75-119. Date accessed: 13 April 2011] His brother Thomas Delves was a Baron of Dover and returning officer for the port.[https://books.google.com/books?id=XKRJAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Nicholas+Delves%22&pg=PA650 The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle, Volume 56, Part 2]

In 1659, Delves was elected Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Third Protectorate Parliament.

In 1660, Delves was re-elected MP for Hastings in the Convention Parliament. He was sworn as an Alderman of the City of London for Vintry Ward on 2 April 1661 but was discharged on 13 June 1661 for a fine of £420.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67214 'Aldermen of the City of London: Vintry ward', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 205-215. Date accessed: 13 April 2011] He was Master of the Merchant Taylors in 1662 and 1663 and was one of the wardens of Merchant Taylors' School.Harry Bristow Wilson [https://books.google.com/books?id=ptwOAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Nicholas+Delves%22+merchant&pg=PA355 The history of Merchant-Taylors School, from its foundation to the ..., Volume 1] In 1664 he brought Titus Oates to Merchant Taylors' School as a free Scholar.[http://www.mtsn.org.uk/History-of-MTS-Part-1.aspx History of Merchant Taylors School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814135617/http://www.mtsn.org.uk/History-of-MTS-Part-1.aspx |date=14 August 2007 }} He was Deputy-Governor of the Irish Society in 1668-9.

Delves died at the age of 71