Family and Education
b. 1560, 1st s. of Bassingbourne Gawdy† of West Harling and his 1st w. Anne, da. of John Wootton of Tuddenham, Norf.; bro. of Philip†. educ. Clifford’s Inn; I. Temple 1578.HMC 7th Rep. 518; I. Temple Admiss. m. (1) Anne (d.1594), da. of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow’s Hall, Debenham, Suff., 3s.; (2) Dorothy, da. of Nicholas Bacon† of Redgrave and Culford, Suff., 2s. 3da. P. Millican, ‘Gawdys of Norf. and Suff.’, Norf. Arch. xxvi. 350-4; Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 126. suc. fa. 1590; Norf. RO, West Harling par. reg. Kntd. 1597. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 94. d. 17 May 1606. C142/293/9. sig. bassingborne gaudy.
Offices Held

Capt. militia ft., Norf. 1588, HMC Gawdy, 30. lt.-col. ft. 1599, Norf. RO, WLS XVII/1, bk. 2, f. 10. dep. lt. 1605–d.; Norf. RO, PHI/583. j.p. Norf. by 1591, Thetford 1603–d.; C181/1, ff. 66, 103. sheriff, Norf. 1593 – 94, 1601–2; Norf. Official Lists ed. H. L’Estrange, 20. commr. subsidy, Norf. 1596, 1598–1603, Norf. RO, WLS XVII/1, bk.1, ff. 22v-3, 27v-8; bk.2, ff. 41v, 168v. musters 1599, Ibid. bk.1, f. 1v. lic. passage overseas 1599, Ibid. bk.2, ff. 12–14. oyer and terminer, Norf., Suff., Cambs., Hunts., Beds., Bucks. 1601–d., Ibid. bk.2, f. 56; C181/1, ff. 16, 30, 38, 52, 76v, 96, 116. piracy, Norf. 1602, 1604, C181/1, ff. 21, 76v. sewers 1604, Fenland 1605, Norf. and Suff. 1605. Ibid. ff. 78, 112v, 125.

Master of game to Thomas Howard, 21st earl of Arundel, Norf. 1603–d. Add. 64868, ff. 66–7.

Main residence: Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.
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Commons 1604-1629
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GAWDY, Sir Bassingbourne (1560-1606)

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