RADCLIFFE, Sir Humphrey (c.1509-66), of Elstow, Beds.

Family and Education

b. c. 1509, 3rd s. of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, by his 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; half-bro. of Sir John. m. Isabel or Elizabeth (d.1594), da. and h. of Edmund Harvey of Elstow, 2s. Thomas and Edward 3da. Kntd. by June 1536.Doyle, Baronetage, iii. 481; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 48, 65; CPR, 1558-60, p. 2; LP Hen. VIII, x. 509; CP, viii. 524.

Offices Held

Gent. pens. by 1540; lt. of pensioners by 1553; j.p. Beds. from 1554, q. by 1562; sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 1558 – 59; steward, manor of Elstow 1563.LP Hen. VIII, iv(1), p. 871; xv. p. 5; Chron. Q. Jane and Q. Mary (Cam. Soc. xlviii), 128; Narr. Reformation (ibid. lxxvii), 161, 168; CPR, 1553–4, p. 17; 1560–3, p. 518.

Parlimentarian

RADCLIFFE, Sir Humphrey (1508/9-66), of Elstow, Beds. and Beddington, Surr.

Main residence: Elstow, Beds.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

RADCLIFFE, Sir Humphrey (c.1509-66)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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