Family and Education
b. c. 1586, 1st s. of Sir William Spencer† of Yarnton and Margaret, da. of Francis Bowyer, Grocer, of Old Jewry, London.M.H.A. Stapleton, Three Oxon. Parishes (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xxiv), 285. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1599, aged 13, BA 1602; L. Inn 1604. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. m. by 1607 (with at least £1,500), P. Styles, Studies in Seventeenth Cent. W. Midlands Hist. 7. Margaret (d.1655), CB, i. 69. da. of Richard Branthwaite, sjt.-at-law, of London, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (4 d.v.p.). Stapleton, 285, 293, 296. suc. fa. 1609. C142/315/173. cr. bt. 29 June 1611. C66/1942; 47th DKR, App. 126. Kntd. 24 May 1612. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 151. d. 17 Aug. 1622. Stapleton, 288-9.
Offices Held

High steward, New Woodstock 1611–d.; Woodstock Chamberlain’s Accts. 1609–50 ed. M. Maslen (Oxon. Rec. Soc. lviii), 26. j.p. Oxon. by 1614 – d., New Woodstock 1621; C66/1988; C181/3, f. 48; C231/4, f. 132; Woodstock Chamberlain’s Accts. 1609–50, p. 86. collector of Benevolence, Oxon. 1614; Woodstock Chamberlain’s Accts. 1609–50, p. 61. freeman, New Woodstock by 1616; Oxon. RO, Woodstock bor. mss B78/3. sheriff Oxon. 1616–17; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 109. commr. oyer and terminer, Oxford circ. 1617–d. C181/2, f. 268; C181/3, f. 63v.

Main residence: Yarnton, Oxon.
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Commons 1604-1629
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SPENCER, Thomas (c.1586-1622)

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