Family and Education
b. bef. 1548, prob. s. of Thomas Ridley (d.1548) of Bouldon, Salop and Ely, by Alice or Anne, da. of Richard Day of Worfield, Salop. educ. Eton 1562-6 (King’s scholar 1563); King’s, Camb. 1566, BA 1571, MA 1574, LLD 1583; incorp. DCL Oxf. 1598. m. (1) Alice, da. of William Day, bp. of Winchester 1596; (2) Margaret, da. of Sir William Boleyn or Bullen, 2da. Kntd. 24 June 1619, at Greenwich.J. Hodgson, Hist. Northumb. ii(2), 322 seq.; iii(2), 340, 343; W. Richardson, Gen. of Ridley; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 162, 419-20; DNB; Nichols, Progresses Jas. I, iii. 554; Ridlon’s Ancient Ryedales should be used with caution.
Offices Held
Fellow, King’s Coll. 1569 – 79; provost, Eton 1579 – 83; adv. Doctors’ Commons 10 Oct. 1590; chancellor, diocese of Winchester 1596; j.p. Hants, Surr. from 1596; commr. piracy Southampton 1603; master in Chancery extraordinary 1598, ordinary 1609; vicar gen. to Abp. Abbot of Canterbury c. 1611 – d.; member, ct. of high commission.
Main residences: Doctors' Commons, London; Owslebury, Hants.
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Commons 1558-1603
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RIDLEY, Thomas (bef. 1548-1629)
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Oxford 1644
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