Family and Education
b. by 1532, 1st s. of Thomas Norton of London by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Mery of Northaw, Herts. educ. Michaelhouse, Camb., matric. 1544 and 1545, MA 1570; I. Temple, adm. Nov. 1555. m. (1) by 1561, Margaret, da. of Thomas Cranmer, abp. of Canterbury, s.p.; (2) by 1568, Alice, da. of Edmund Cranmer, 4s. 2da. suc. fa. 10 Mar. 1583.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/203/12. DNB; N. and Q. (ser. 3), iv. 480; Harl. 1234, f. 113; 1547, f. 45v; Her. and Gen. iii. 276; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 80-81, 152; R. E. C. Waters, Fams. Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Wood, 22-23.
Offices Held
Counsel to Stationers’ Co. 1562; remembrancer, London 6 Feb. 1571–d.? garbler of spices 10 Mar. 1583–d.; commr. to examine Catholic prisoners 1574, 1578 – 83, for Guernsey 1579, for Sark 1583; solicitor to Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1581; censor for bp. of London by 1581.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: London.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
NORTON, Thomas (by 1532-84)
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Oxford 1644
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