GRENVILLE, John (by 1506-62 or later), of Exeter, Devon.

Family and Education

b. by 1506, 2nd s. of Roger Grenville of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw. by Margaret, da. and coh. of Richard Whitley of Efford, Devon; bro. of Richard Grenville I. educ. I. Temple, adm. 6 Feb. 1520. m. by July 1531, Lettice, da. of Thomas Lucas of Little Saxham Hall, Suff., at least 1s. 4da.Date of birth estimated from education. Vis. Cornw. (Harl. Soc. ix), 84-85; Vis. Cornw. ed. Vivian, 191; Vis. Devon, ed. Colby, 119; Vis. Devon, ed. Vivian, 214, 526; PCC 14 Thower; LP Hen. VIII, xii.

Offices Held

Servant of (Sir) Thomas Audley I by 1533; serjeant-at-arms by Apr. 1537 – 18 Apr. 1543; comptroller, ports of Dartmouth and Exeter 7 Dec. 1537–?d.; serjeant-at-arms, household of Queen Anne of Cleves 1540; particular-receiver, lands late of Queen Catherine Howard, Cornw. and Devon 2 Mar. 1542, lands of Queen Catherine Parr, Cornw. and Devon 1543 – 48, (with Thomas Spurway) Devon and Dorset by 1548; surveyor, ct. augmentations, Cornw. and Devon 18 Apr. 1543, Cornw. solely by 1550; woodward, Cornw. and Devon 30 Feb. 1546–54; j.p. Cornw. and Devon 1545, 1547; commr. chantries 1546, 1548, relief 1550; v.-adm. (with Sir Peter Carew), Cornw. and Devon in 1548. LP Hen. VIII, vi, vii, xiii, xv, xvii-xxi; E101/423/12, f. 12; 315/340/4v; Rep. R. Comm. of 1555 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 51; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 82, 135; 1553, pp. 346, 351–2; J. Maclean, Sir Thomas Seymour, 65.

Parlimentarian

GRENVILLE, John (by 1506-62 or later), of Exeter, Devon.

Main residence: Exeter, Devon.

Author

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

GRENVILLE, John (by 1506-at least 62)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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