HOLSTOCK, William (d.1589), of Billingsgate, London and Orsett, Essex.

Family and Education

m. Agnes or Anne, da. of Thomas Powell of Horsley, Horsley Essex,C142/266/175; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 422; PCC 99 Leicester. 1s. 3da.

Offices Held

Dep. treasurer of Admiralty by Aug. 1547; keeper of storehouses at Deptford 1549, Portsmouth 1558, Chatham 1559 – 61; jt. surveyor of victuals for navy 1560 – 63; comptroller of navy 1561; warden, Grocers’ Co. 1562 – 63, 1569 – 70; dep. to ld. adm. against Channel pirates c.1572.APC , ii. 120 et passim; viii. 65, 83; M. Oppenheim, Admin. of Royal Navy , 104, 140, 149; CPR , 1557–8, p. 404; 1558–60. pp. 237, 303; 1560–3, p. 63; W. W. Grantham, Wardens of the Grocers’ Co. 20.

Parlimentarian

HOLSTOCK, William (d.1589), of Billingsgate, London and Orsett, Essex.

Main residences: Billingsgate, London; Orsett, Essex.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

HOLSTOCK, William (-d.1589)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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