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b. c. 1566,Date estimated from age at admission to Oxford. 1st s. of Thomas Ridgeway† of Tor Mohun, Devon and Mary, da. of Thomas Southcote† of Shillingford St. George, Devon and coh. to her grandfa. John Barnhouse of Prestcot, Devon. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 647; D. and S. Lysons, Devonshire, 151. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1581, aged 15; I. Temple 1583. Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. m. by 1591, Ridgeway’s eldest son was born c.1592: CSP Ire. 1606-8, p. 607. Cecily (d.1627), da. of Henry Macwilliam† of Stambourne, Essex and coh. to her bro. Henry, 3s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.). Vivian, 647; CP, viii. 106. suc. fa. 1598; C142/252/33. Kntd. Aug. 1600; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 98. cr. bt. 25 Nov. 1611, C66/1942/16. Bar. Ridgeway of Gallen-Ridgeway [I] 25 May 1616, earl of Londonderry [I] 23 Aug. 1622. CPR Ire. Jas. I, 311, 551. d. 24 June 1631. Lismore Pprs. ed. A.B. Grosart (ser. 1), iii. 88.
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Customer, Dartmouth and Exeter, Devon by 1595–1605; HMC Hatfield, v. 393; E351/609. commr. prize goods, Dartmouth 1597, APC, 1597–8, p. 94; HMC Hatfield, vii. 486. investigate complaints by Dartmouth corporation 1598, APC, 1598–9, p. 297. j.p. Devon 1598-at least 1626, C231/1, f. 60v; E163/18/12, f. 16v. sheriff 1599–1600, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 36. commr. piracy 1603–4. C181/1, ff. 61v, 93.

Commr. inquiry into ex-monastic lands, co. Dublin 1606, CSP Ire. 1606–8, pp. 45–6. survey, Ulster 1608, P.S. Robinson, Plantation of Ulster, 68. Ulster plantation from 1609, CSP Ire. 1608–10, pp. 171, 460. co. Wexford from 1614; APC, 1613–14, p. 517. freeman, Ballynakill, Queen’s Co. 1612. Ibid. 299.

Member, Anne of Denmark’s Council from 1603; Add. 38139, f. 104v. commr. Union with Scotland 1604; CJ, i. 208b. v.-treas. and treas.-at-wars [I] 1606–16, C66/1691; CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 425. PC [I] 1606–16, CSP Ire. 1606–8, p. 6; APC, 1615–16, p. 454. commr. levy Crown debts 1609, 1613, CPR Ire. Jas. I, 172; C66/1978. trade 1610–11, CSP Ire. 1611–14, p. 196. visitation 1615. Ibid. 1615–25, p. 75.

Capt. of ft. [I] by 1608 – at least11, horse by 1610. Ibid. 1608–10, pp. 33, 507; CSP Carew, 1603–24, p. 218.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 363.

MP [I] 1613–15. CSP Ire. 1611–14, p. 362.

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RIDGEWAY, Sir Thomas (c.1566-1631), of Torre Abbey, Devon
Main residence: Torre Abbey, Devon.
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Commons 1604-1629
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RIDGEWAY, Sir Thomas (c.1566-1631)

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