CHALONER, Thomas (1521-65), of London; Hoxton, Mdx.; Steeple Claydon, Bucks. and Guisborough, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 1521, 1st s. of Roger Chaloner of London, and bro. of John II. educ. Camb. (?St. John’s); ?Oxf. m. (1) by Oct. 1550, Joan (d. Jan. 1557), da. of William Cotton of Oxenhoath, Kent, wid. of (Sir) Thomas Lee of London, s.p.; (2) Audrey (d. 25 Dec. 1605), da. of Edward Frodsham of Elton, Cheshire, 1s. Thomas. Kntd. 1970; suc. fa. 1550.Date of birth given in DNB. Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 59-60; Lipscomb, Bucks. iii. 80, where the generations are confused by the introduction of an extra Thomas of Guisborough; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 109; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxiv). 42; CPR, 1554-5, p. 140; CSP Dom. 1547-80, p. 255.

Offices Held

?Servant of Cromwell 1538; teller of Exchequer 1544–52 (jt. with fa. to 1550); clerk of Privy Council 1545 – c.51; j.p. Mdx. 1547 – 54; commr. musters, Spanish soldiers in S. Eng. 1549, relief, Mdx. 1550; ambassador, France Apr. – Aug. 1553, Netherlands 1559 – 60, Spain Oct. 1561 – Jan. 1565; member, council in the north Sept. 1553–7.M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 462; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xix, xx; R. Hakluyt, Voyages (ed. 1903–5), v. 70–71; CPR, 1547–8, p. 86; 1550–3, pp. 141, 285, 297; 1553, p. 351; 1553–4, p. 21; CSP For. 1547–53, pp. 87, 108, 129, 260; 1553–8, pp. 5, 6, 213; 1558–9, pp. 12, 13, 362–8; 1561–2, p. 542; APC, i. 166, 356; ii. 181, 183, 261, 270, 275; iii. 224, 252, 318, 364, 393; iv. 80, 161, 246; R. R. Reid, King’s Council in the North, 493; Lansd. 155, f. 373; CSP Dom. 1547–80, pp. 97, 186; CSP Span. 1558–67, p. 404.

Parlimentarian

CHALONER, Thomas (1521-65), of London; Hoxton, Mdx.; Steeple Claydon, Bucks. and Guisborough, Yorks.

Main residence: London; Hoxton, Mdx.; Steeple Claydon, Bucks. and Guisborough, Yorks.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

CHALONER, Thomas (1521-65)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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