IRBY, Anthony (1547-1625), of Whaplode and Moulton, Lincs.

Family and Education

b. 1547, 1st s. of Thomas Irby of Whaplode by Elizabeth or Isabel, da. of Thomas Serjeant of Moulton. educ. Caius, Camb. 1559; L. Inn 1569, called 1577. m. 22 Dec. 1575, Alice (d.1602), da. of Thomas Welby of Moulton, wid. of one Tash, 5s. (at least 2 d.v.p.) 2da. (at least 1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1561.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. li), 541-3; P. Thompson, Coll. Topog. Hist. Boston, 238; P. A. Irby, Irbys of Lincs. and Irebys of Cumb. i. 18, 25 seq.

Offices Held

Commr. sewers, Lincs. 1564; recorder and town clerk, Stamford; bencher, L. Inn 1589, Autumn reader 1590, treasurer 1599 – 1600; dep. recorder, Boston prob. by 1587, recorder 1613 – d.; j.p. Lincs. (Holland) from c. 1591, q. from c. 1595; dep. steward, soke of Bolingbroke 1599; master in Chancery extraordinary by 1621.Recs. Commr. of Sewers in Holland, ed. Kirkus (Lincoln Rec. Soc. liv), pp. lxvi, lxvii; Black Bk. L. Inn, passim; APC, xvii. 66; 1619–21, p.367; Boston corp. min. bk. 1, ff. 294, 299b; P. Thompson, Hist. Antiqs. Boston, 391–8.

Parlimentarian

IRBY, Anthony (c.1547-1625), of Boston, Lincs. and Lincoln’s Inn, London

Main residences: Whaplode; Moulton, Lincs.

Author

S.M.T.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

IRBY, Anthony (1547-1625)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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