SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas II (c.1564-1632), of Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss.; later of Calbourne Parsonage and Cosham House, Newport, I. o. W.

Family and Education

b. c. 1564, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Shirley I* and Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Kempe† of Wye, Kent.E.P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, 235. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 1579, aged 15; I. Temple 1581. Al. Ox.; I. Temple database of admiss. m. (1) 1591, Frances, da. of Henry Vavasour of Copmanthorpe, Yorks., 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da.; (2) 2 Dec. 1617, Judith, da. of William Bennett of London, wid. of one Taylor, 5s. 6da. (at least 2 d.v.p.). Kntd. 26 Oct. 1589; suc. fa. 1612. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, 265, 269-72; Oxford DNB; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 87. bur. 13 Dec. 1632 13 Dec. 1632. WCA, St. Clement Danes par. reg. sig. Thomas Sherley.

Offices Held

Capt. horse 1585–8, CSP Dom. 1591–4, p. 436; HMC Ancaster, 89. ft. 1597–8; APC, 1597, p. 30; HMC Hatfield, viii. 313. capt. RN 1599. HMC Hatfield, ix. 427.

J.p. Surr. c.1593–1601; Hatfield House, ms 278; C231/1, f. 117. commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by 1595-at least 1598; CPR, 37 Eliz. I ed. S.R. Neal and C. Leighton (L. and I Soc. cccx), 122; C66/1482. kpr. of Parkhurst forest, I.o.W. 1625. D.W. Davies, Elizabethans Errant, 278.

Servant to Queen Eliz. by 1602; E. Denison Ross, ‘Letter from James I to the Sultan Ahmed’, Bulletin of Sch. of Oriental Stud. vii. 301. esq. of the Body ?1617-at least 1624. STAC 8/263/17; HMC Hatfield, xxii. 52.

Member, Virg. Co. by 1610. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 466.

Parlimentarian

SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas II (c.1564-1632), of Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss.; later of Calbourne Parsonage and Cosham House, Newport, I. o. W.

Main residences: Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss.; Calbourne Parsonage; Cosham House, Newport, I. o. W.

Sherley

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas II (c.1564-1632)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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