Family and Education
b. c. 1542.Date estimated from probable admiss. to Oxf. in 1557. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. by 1558, BA 1560, MA 1564, DCL 1574; Al. Ox.; Reg. Oxf. Univ. ed. C.W. Boase, i. 243, 300. M. Temple 1585. M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) 1583, Reg. Annal. Coll. Merton. 1567-1603, p. 160. Anne (admon. 4 Dec. 1583), PROB 11/66, f. 140v. da. of John Quarles of London, Draper and wid. of William Rickthorne (d. 10 Nov. 1582) of Canonbury, Islington, Mdx., s.p.; (2) by 1587, Judith, da. of Walter Hungerford of Cadnam, Wilts., 4s. 1da. Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 116, 153; The Gen. n.s. ix. 177; PROB 11/105, f. 48. Kntd. 11 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 106. d. 2 Dec. 1604. The Gen. n.s. ix. 177.
Offices Held

Member, embassy to Spain 1566–8. Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis 1521–67 (Oxf. Hist. Soc. n.s. xxiii), 261, 268; 1567–1603 (n.s. xxiv), 13; Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 255.

Fellow, Merton, Oxf. 1562 – 83; principal, St. Alban Hall, Oxf. 1569 – 81; proctor, Oxf. Univ. 1570 – 71, public orator 1572–82. Al. Ox.; Reg. Annal. Coll. Merton. 1567–1603, p. 160.

Sec. to 1st earl of Leicester c.1574-at least 1587. S. Adams, Leicester and the Court, 291; E. Rosenberg, Leicester, Patron of Letters, 150.

Member, Barbary Co. 1585. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 237.

Recvr.-gen. Alienations Office by 1589–d. HMC Hatfield, xiii. 427; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 175.

Commr. i.p.m. of Robert Dudley†, earl of Leicester 1589; CPR, 1587–8 (L. and I. Soc. ccc), 95. j.p. Mdx. c.1593–d.; Hatfield House, ms 278; C66/1620. commr. to search for highwaymen, Mdx. 1598, APC, 1598–9, p. 141. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1603–d., C181/1, ff. 42v, 102v. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1603–d., Ibid. f. 66v. collector, Privy Seal loan c.July 1604–d. E401/2585, f. 1.

Main residence: Kilburn Priory, Mdx.
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Commons 1604-1629
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ATYE, Sir Arthur (c.1542-1604)

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Oxford 1644
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