VAVASOUR, Sir Thomas (1560/1-1620), of Blackfriars, London and Skellingthorpe, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. 1560 /1,C142/213/145. 1st s. of Henry Vavasour of Copmanthorpe, Yorks. by Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Knyvet of East Horsley, Surr. J. Foster, Yorks. Peds. educ. Eton Coll. Bucks. 1572-6; Caius, Camb. 1576, aged 16. Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry, 343; Al. Cant. m. lic. 14 May 1597, Mary, da. and coh. of John Dodge of Mannington, Norf., wid. of Peter Houghton, Grocer and alderman of London, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. London Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv), 238; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 107; HMC Hatfield, xxiv. 123; C142/248/21. suc. fa. 1584; C142/213/145. Kntd. 1597. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 94. d. 21 Oct. – 27 Nov. 1620. PROB 11/136, f. 289.

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. 1585 – 91, 1598. CSP For. 1584–5, p. 635; APC, 1591, p. 103; 1597–8, p. 301; 1598–9, p. 258.

Gent. pens. 1586 – aft.1608; kt.-marshal 1603 – 18; judge, Ct. of the Verge 1611–18. LC2/4/4, f. 59v; Lincs. AO, Worsley 1/30; C66/1618, 1904.

Butler, port of London 1603–4; HMC Hatfield, xv. 323. member, Crown land consortium 1608–10; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 486, 546. farmer (jt.), alnage of old draperies, Yorks. 1611–12; E112/138/1307. member, New Merchant Adventurers’ Co. 1612–17. Procs. 1614 (Commons), 298

J.p. Kent 1603 – c.13, Mdx. and Surr. by 1604–d.; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 66; 1619–23, p. 236; J.S. Cockburn, Kent Indictments Jas. I, 1, 134. commr. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1604–18; C181/1, ff. 93, 176, 287. forester of Galtres, Yorks. ?1608–d. VCH Yorks. ii. 414.

Parlimentarian

VAVASOUR, Sir Thomas (1560/1-1620), of Blackfriars, London and Skellingthorpe, Lincs.

Main residences: Blackfriars, London; Skellingthorpe, Lincs.

Author

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

VAVASOUR, Sir Thomas (1560/1-1620)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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