HARRIS, Thomas (c.1557-1627), of Shrewsbury, Salop and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Tong Castle, Salop and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1557,Assuming him to have been aged 18 on entry to L. Inn. ?2nd s. of John Harris of Cruckton, Salop and Eleanor, da. of Thomas Prowde of Sutton, Salop. Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 223-4. educ. Shrewsbury g.s. ?1565; ?Clement’s Inn; L. Inn ?1575, called 1583. Shrewsbury Sch. Regestum Scholarium comp. E. Calvert, i. 17, 36; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. i. 427. m. by 1598, Eleanor, da. of Roger Gifford†, MD, of Fleet Street, London, 1s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 d.v.p.). Vis. Salop, 223-4; PROB 11/90, f. 159. cr. bt. 1623. CB, i. 218. d. 18 Feb. 1627. C142/431/105; 142/432/122. sig. Tho[mas] Harries.

Offices Held

Steward, reader’s dinner, L. Inn 1593, bencher 1596 – 1604, reader 1600; sjt.-at-law 1603–d. LI Black Bks. ii. 28, 46, 59, 61; Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 177.

J.p. Salop 1600 – d., Cheshire 1601 – d.; commr. oyer and terminer, Mdx. (Gunpowder plotters) 1606, Oxf. circ. 1607–d., C181/1, f. 132; 181/2, f. 38. subsidy, Salop and Shrewsbury 1621 – 22, 1624; collector, tenths and fifteenths, Salop 1624. C212/22/20–23; E179/283, vol. ‘TG 28398’.

Parlimentarian

HARRIS, Thomas (c.1557-1627), of Shrewsbury, Salop and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Tong Castle, Salop and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residences: Shrewsbury, Salop; Lincoln's Inn, London; Tong Castle, Salop; Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, London.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

HARRIS, Thomas (c.1557-1627)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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