LAWTON, Thomas (c.1558-1606), of Church Lawton, Cheshire and Balterley, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1558, 3rd s. of John Lawton (d.1598) of Church Lawton and his 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Fulke Dutton of Chester.G. Ormerod, Hist. Cheshire, iii. 17; Vis. Cheshire (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lviii), 138. educ. scholar, King’s Sch. Chester 1574; Cheshire Archives, ‘L. and I. King’s Sch. Scholars’, unpag. typescript. St. Alban’s Hall, Oxf. 1575; I. Temple 1576, called 1584. Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. ?m. ?; 3 Jan. 1590, Werber, da. of one Kent, ?s.p. Cheshire Sheaf ed. M. Ridgway, ser. 3. ii. 34. suc. ?cos. William Lawton (as coh.) 1604. d. by 7 Jan. 1606. Staffs. Historical Collections: Staffs. Q. Sess. Rolls V ed. S.A.H. Burne (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. ser. 3, 1940) p. 262; Cheshire Archives, AB/1, f. 288.

Offices Held

Fee’d counsel, Chester 1596 – 1602, recorder 1602–d.; Cheshire Archives, AB/1, ff. 246v, 271v. bencher, I. Temple 1597, reader 1600. CITR, i. 358.

J.p. Cheshire 1601 – d., Staffs. 1604–d.; Cheshire Sheaf, ser. 3, i. 11; n.s. i. 147; Staffs. Hist. Colls.: Staffs. Q. Sess. Rolls V, 72, 262. freeman, Chester 1601, alderman 1602–d.; Freemen of Chester (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. li), 84; Cheshire Archives, AB/1, f. 269v, 271v. commr. sewers, Cheshire 1604–d. C181/1, p. 95.

Parlimentarian

LAWTON, Thomas (c.1558-1606), of Church Lawton, Cheshire and Balterley, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London

Main residences: Church Lawton, Cheshire; Balterley, Staffs.; the Inner Temple, London.

Author

C.R.K.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

LAWTON, Thomas (c.1558-1606)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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