Family and Education
b. by 1471, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir William Farrington of Farington by Alice, da. of (Richard or Sir William) Ashton of Croston. m. (1) Anne, da. of (Sir Alexander or William) Radcliffe of Ordsall, wid. of Thomas Tyldesley, ?7s. 2da.; (2) by 1536, Dorothy, da. of Humphrey Okeover of Okeover, Staffs., 1s. suc. fa. 1501. Kntd. 30 May 1533.Date of birth estimated from age at father’s death, VCH Lancs. vi. 63. Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. cx), 114; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529-58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 291 seq. There are discrepancies between the pedigree given by Watson and those elsewhere. Chetham Soc. xxxi. pp. xx, xxiv; LP Hen. VIII, vi.
Offices Held
Steward, Eccleston, Heskin, Leyland, Penwortham and Ulnes Walton, Lancs. 1505 and without Eccleston and Heskin 1547; esquire of the body in 1505; commr. subsidy, Lancs. 1512, 1515, 1549, tenths of spiritualities 1535, relief 1550; j.p. 1557 – d.; sheriff Feb. – Nov. 1526, 1530 – 31; ?sec. to the 3rd Earl of Derby.
Main residences: Farington, Leyland; Worden, Lancs.
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Commons 1509-1558
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FARRINGTON, Henry (by 1471-1549/51)
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