TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625), of Burford, Oxon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1554, 1st s. of Robert Tanfield of Burford by his w. Wilgiford Fitzherbert. educ. Eton; I. Temple 1569, called by 1579. m. (1) by 1585, Elizabeth, da. of Giles Symonds of Cley, Norf., 1da.; (2) by 1620, Elizabeth Evans of Loddington, Northants. suc. fa. c.1557. Kntd. 1604.DNB; Life of Lady Falkland, ed. ‘R. S.’ (Richard Simpson), London, 1861, pp. 1-7; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 295-6; N. and Q. (ser. 2), x. 209; R. H. Gretton, Burford Recs. 268.

Offices Held

?Recorder, New Woodstock; j.p. Oxon. from c. 1583; bencher, I. Temple 1591, Lent reader 1595; of counsel to Oxf. Univ. 1597; serjeant-at-law 1603; puisne judge King’s bench 1606; chief baron of the Exchequer 1607.Liber Famelicus of Sir James Whitelocke (Cam. Soc. lxx), 19; I. T. Recs. i. 378, 397; Wood, Oxf. Univ. ii. 264.

Parlimentarian

TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625), of Burford Priory, Oxon.; Wych Street, Westminster and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residence: Burford, Oxon.

Author

A.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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