GOLDSMITH, Francis (d.1586), of London and Crayford, Kent.

Family and Education

Related to the Goldsmiths of Cheshire. educ. Christ’s, Camb., scholar 1532-3, BA 1535, MA 1539; fellow of Peterhouse 1536-43. m. Joan, da. of Clement Newce of Much Hadham, Herts., 10 ch. (at least 4s. 3da.).Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv.), 321; Cheshire Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. xciii), 46; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 198-9; Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, i. 185.

Offices Held

Member of Queen Catherine Parr’s household c. 1543; surveyor of melting house of Tower mint by Sept. 1551-c.Aug. 1559.LP Hen VIII , xviii(2), p. 283; APC, iv. 84; CPR, 1558–60, p. 26.

Parlimentarian

GOLDSMITH, Francis (by 1518-86), of London and Crayford, Kent.

Main residences: London; Crayford, Kent.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

GOLDSMITH, Francis (-d.1586)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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