ST. LEGER (SELLENGER), Sir Anthony (c.1496-1559), of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle, Kent.

Family and Education

b. c. 1496, 1st s. of Ralph St. Leger of Ulcombe by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Haut of Kent. educ. Camb.; travelled France and Italy; G. Inn. m. Agnes or Anne, da. of Hugh Warham of Croydon and niece and h. of William Warham, abp. of Canterbury, at least 5s. inc. Nicholas 2da. suc. fa. 1518. Kntd. 1539; KG 1544.DNB; Lloyd, State Worthies, i. 99; C. Wykeham Martin, Hist. Leeds Castle, table after p. 156; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 69; LP Hen. VIII, xix(1), p. 252. Material on St. Leger’s Irish policy can be found in LP Hen. VIII, vols. xiii-xxi; State Pprs. Hen. VIII, vols, ii and iii; R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. i; Cal. Carew Pprs. 1515-74; CSP Ire. 1509-73; R. D. Edwards, Church and State in Tudor Ireland, 92, 133-7, 161; W. A. Phillips, Hist. Church of Ire. ii. 248.

Offices Held

J.p. Kent by 1526, sheriff 1539 – 40; commr. to survey Calais 1535, 1552, to defend Kent coast 1539, heresy 1552; gent. privy chamber by 1538 – c.53; ld. deputy, Ireland July 1540–48, Aug. 1550 – May 1551, Oct. 1553 – May 1556; PC 7 Aug. 1553-bef. 1558; envoy to France Aug. 1553.LP Hen. VIII, iv(1), p. 901; ix. pp. 59–60; xiii(2), p. 534; xiv. p. 151; APC, iv. 313; CSP For. 1553–8, pp. 4–6; CPR, 1550–3, p. 355; Strype, Cranmer, i. 435. The Imperial ambassador in London confused St. Leger with Sir Thomas Chalenor, MP, which has led several subsequent writers to the belief that St. Leger was in France most of the year.

Parlimentarian

ST. LEGER (SELLENGER), Sir Anthony (c.1496-1559), of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle, Kent.

Main residences: Ulcombe; Leeds Castle, Kent.

Author

M.R.P.

P.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

ST. LEGER (SELLENGER), Sir Anthony (c.1496-1559)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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