Family and Education
b. by 1491, s. of Sir John Giffard by 1st w. educ. Strand Inn; I. Temple, adm. 11 Nov. 1512. m. (1) by 1519, Dorothy (d. by 1529), da. of Sir John Montgomery of Cubley, Derbys., at least 1da.; (2) settlement 20 Oct. 1531, Ursula (d. 15 Mar. 1581), da. of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton, Warws., at least 4s. inc. John 5da. suc. fa. 13 Nov. 1556. Kntd. 22 Feb. 1547.Date of birth estimated from mother’s death. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. iii(2), 82; C142/110/143, 127/45; HMC Hastings, i. 309; Giffard is styled ‘miles’ on the commission of oyer and terminer for the Oxford circuit dated 9 Feb. 1547 (CPR, 1547-8, p. 75) in anticipation of his knighthood bestowed two weeks later—see H. H. Leonard, ‘Knights and knighthood in Tudor Eng.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1970), 78-79.
Offices Held
Escheator, Staffs. 1523 – 24, Apr. – Nov. 1538; eommr. subsidy 1523, 1524, tenths of spiritualities 1535, musters 1539, relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; sheriff 1529 – 30, 1547 – 48, 1553 – 54; j.p. 1532 – d.; jt. (with fa.) ranger, Cannock forest, Staffs. 1532 – 56, sole 1556 – d.; gent. usher, the chamber by 1533 – d.; keeper, Brewood park by 1535; steward, manor of Shenstone, Staffs. 30 Apr. 1538.
Main residences: Caverswall; Chillington, Staffs.
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Commons 1509-1558
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GIFFARD, Thomas (by 1491-1560)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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