TYRWHITT, Sir Robert (by 1504-72), of Leighton Bromswold, Hunts.

By 1559 Tyrwhitt’s active career was over, and he had retired to his estates, where, for the last 14 years of his life he lived as a Huntingdonshire country gentleman, an active justice of the peace, ‘earnest in religion’. He died on 10 May 1572, and was buried at Leighton Bromswold, where there is a monument in the parish church to him, his wife and their daughter Katherine. Katherine had married Sir Henry Darcy, and after her death in 1567 Tyrwhitt, ‘being aged and not having nor being like to have’ any more children, had demised Leighton Bromswold and other parts of his property to his son-in-law. His will, made in February and proved in June 1572, mentions also a London house. Tyrwhitt stipulated that he was to be buried ‘without pomp or pride’. He left bequests to his son-in-law, his nephews Thomas Wingfield, Goddard Tyrwhitt and Robert Monson, and to his ‘especial good friend’ Sir Walter Mildmay, the executor.LP Hen. VIII, passim; Harl. 890, f. 38; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 1019-10; VCH Hunts. iii. 86, 89, 91; CPR, 1547-8, p. 172; 1555-7, pp. 69-70; 1569-72, pp. 222, 277-8; R. P. Tyrwhitt, Fam. Tyrwhitt, 22; APC, iii. 259; iv. 49; Cal. Feet of Fines, Hunts. ed. Turner (Cambs. Antiq. Soc. Pubs. oct. ser. xxxvii), 138, 160; Cam. Misc. ix(3). p. 29; C142/87/22, 164/113; PCC 21 Daper.