Family and Education
b. c. 1580, o.s. of Thomas Fotherley of Rickmansworth and Tabitha, da. and h. of Giles House of Essex.Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 144. educ. Rickmansworth (Mr. Stocke) 1592-7; Caius, Camb. 1597, aged 17. J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll. 163. m. 7 Mar. 1617, Anne, da. of William Hippisley of Marston Bigot, Som., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. St. Mary Mounthaw (Harl. Soc. Reg. lviii), 9; R. Clutterbuck, Hist. and Antiqs. of Herts. i. 187. suc. fa. 1624; Kntd. 31 Mar. 1640. Clutterbuck, i. 204; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 207. d. bet. 1 Dec. 1649 and 15 Jan. 1650.
Offices Held

Kpr. of the privy purse to Henry Percy, 9th earl of Northumberland by 1605, groom of the chamber 1606, recvr.-gen. 1608–19; Household Pprs. of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland ed. G.R. Batho (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. xciii), 5, 153. ?steward to George Villiers, 1st mq. (later duke) of Buckingham 1620 – c.26, solicitor c.1626–8, R. Lockyer, Buckingham, 142, 460. steward to Katherine, duchess of Buckingham 1628 – at least35; commr. for duke of Buckingham’s estate by 1624-at least 1628. CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 353; 1628–9, p. 44.

J.p. Westminster 1624 – at least36, Herts. and St. Albans liberty 1625-at least 1636; C231/4, ff. 167, 192; SP16/405. bailiff of the liberty of the dean and chapter of Westminster by 1624–8; CSP Dom. 1623–5, p. 304; 1628–9, p. 276. commr. subsidy, Herts. 1624; C212/22/23. freeman, Rye, Suss. 1625; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 174. steward of Crown manors, St. Albans liberty 1626-at least 1627;T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 163; SP16/69, f. 68. commr. oyer and terminer, St. Albans liberty 1632–?d., C181/4, f. 30. sewers, Westminster 1634, Colne valley 1638, Ibid. f. 191; 181/5, f. 28v. to take accts. of royal recvrs. in co. Londonderry [I] 1639, BRL, 602204/514; 604196/15; CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 211. subsidy, Herts. 1641, poll tax 1641, SR, v. 62, 84, 107. array 1642. Northants. RO, FH133.

Gent. of the privy chamber 1628-at least 1641. LC5/132, p. 68; LC3/1, unfol.

Main residences: Rickmansworth, Herts.; St. Margaret's, Westminster; The Mews, Westminster.
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Commons 1604-1629
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FOTHERLEY, Thomas (c.1580-1649/50)

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