- Nizel Rivers
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Nizel Rivers (1614 - 11 January 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
Rivers was the son of Sir John Rivers, 1st Baronet of Chafford, Westerham, Kent where he was baptised on 19 May 1614. He was educated at Westerham, and admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge on 10 May 1628. He was awarded BA in 1632.[1]
In 1660, Rivers was elected Member of Parliament for Lewes in the Convention Parliament.[2]
Rivers lived at Oakham, near Lewes and died at the age of 80
References
- ^ Rivers, Nizel in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
Categories:- 1614 births
- 1695 deaths
- Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England
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