BUTLER (BOTELER), Thomas I (1513/14-79), of Bewsey and Warrington, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. 1513 /14, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Butler by 1st w. Cecily, da. of Piers or Peter Legh of Lyme Cheshire. m. (1) by 1543, Eleanor, da. of John Huddleston of Sawston, Cambs., 1s. 3da.; (2) c.1560, Thomasin (d.1573), s.p.; (3) 1574, Anne, da. of Edward Norris of Speke, Lancs., s.p. suc. fa. 1549. Kntd. May 1577.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., DL7/9/22. Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. xcviii), 96-98; (lxxxi), 106; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. Gentry, 1529-58’ (London Univ. M. A. thesis, 1959), 255-60; Stow’s Survey of London (1720), iii, 224; VCH Lancs. i. 349.

Offices Held

?Page of chamber by 1541; ?gent. pens. by 1544–52/53 commr. eccles, causes, diocese of Chester 1562, musters, Lancs. 1573, 1578; j.p. Lancs. by 1568; sheriff 1569–70.LP Hen. VIII, xvi, xix, xx; CPR, 1560–3, p. 280; 1566–9, pp. 271–2; Watson, 260; Chetham Soc. xlix. 86; information from W. J. Tighe.

Parlimentarian

BUTLER (BOTELER), Thomas I (1513/14-79), of Bewsey and Warrington, Lancs.

Main residences: Bewsey; Warrington, Lancs.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

BUTLER (BOTELER), Thomas I (1513/14-79)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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