RADCLIFFE, Sir Thomas (1525/26-83), of Woodham Walter, Essex.

Family and Education

b. 1525 /26, 1st s. of Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, by 1st w. Elizabeth; da. of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, bro. of Sir Henry. m. (1) ?Mar. 1545, Elizabeth (d. Jan. 1555), da. of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) lic. 26 Apr. 1555, Frances (d.1589), da. of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, Kent. Kntd. 30 Sept. 1544; summ. to Lords in fa.’s barony as Baron Fitzwalter 14 Aug. 1553; suc. fa. as 3rd Earl of Sussex 17 Feb. 1557, KG nom. 23 Apr. 1557, inst. 9 Jan. 1558.Aged 57 at death. CP; LP Hen. VIII , xviii; Mar. Lic. London (Harl. Soc. xxv), 16; Susan M. Doran, ‘Pol. career of Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1977); DNB.

Offices Held

Warden and capt. Portsmouth 24 Nov. 1549 – Apr. 1551; commr. relief, Norf. and Norwich 1550; carver by 1553; gent. privy chamber to King Philip June 1554; j.p. Essex, Norf. 1554, q. Suff. 1564; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1555, 1559, 1571, 1572; ld. dep. [I] 27 Apr. 1556–60, ld. lt. 6 May 1560 – Oct. 1565; warden and c.j. forests south of Trent 3 July 1557; capt. gent. pens. 1557 – d.; pres. council in the north July 1568 – Oct. 1572; PC 30 Dec. 1570; Ld. chamberlain, the Household July 1572 – d., steward, New Hall (Beaulieu), Essex July 1572, Maldon, Essex at d. CPR, 1549–51, p. 115; 1553, pp. 351, 361; 1553–4, pp. 19, 22; 1555–7, pp. 56, 318; 1563–6, p. 27; 1569–72, pp. 361–2; APC, iii. 261; Stowe 571, f. 30v; CSP Span. 1554, p. 297; LJ, i. 492, 542, 667, 703.

Parlimentarian

RADCLIFFE, Sir Thomas (1525/26-83), of Woodham Walter, Essex.

Main residence: Woodham Walter, Essex.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

RADCLIFFE, Sir Thomas (1525/26-83)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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