SMITH, Sir Lawrence (1515/16-82), of Chester and Hough, Cheshire.

Family and Education

b. 1515 /16, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Smith of Chester by Catherine, da. of Sir Andrew Brereton of Brereton. m. (1) by 1546, Agnes, da. of Sir Thomas Foulshurst of Crewe, 3s.; (2) Jan. 1561, Jane, da. of Sir Peter Warburton of Arley, wid. of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, 1 or 2da. suc. fa. 1538. Kntd. 11 May 1544.Aged 66 at death, Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. 503. PRO. Chester 3/67/113, 80/19; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. xviii), 209; (lix), 212; Chetham Soc. li. 21.

Offices Held

Mayor, Chester 1540 – 41, 1558 – 59, 1563 – 64, 1570 – 71, alderman 1544; j.p. Cheshire 1543 – d., q. by 1564; commr. benevolence, Chester 1544/45, musters, Cheshire 1545, 1569, 1570, relief, Cheshire and Chester 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Chester 1553; sheriff, Cheshire 1531 – 32, 1566 – 67; commr. and dep. to council in marches of Wales 1553.Chester RO, A/B/1/74v; M/L/5/3; Ormerod, i. 213; Cheshire Sheaf (ser. 1), ii. 184; Chester mayor’s bk. 1541–5, f. 3; G. L. Fenwick, Chester, 534; LP Hen. VIII, xix, xx; CPR, 1547–8, p. 81; 1550–3, p. 397; 1553, pp. 360, 361, 416–17; SP11/5/6; B. Coward, ‘Stanley fam. c. 1385–1651’ (Sheffield Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1968), 201; APC, vii. 284.

Parlimentarian

SMITH, Sir Lawrence (1515/16-82), of Chester and Hough, Cheshire.

Main residences: Chester; Hough, Cheshire.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

SMITH, Sir Lawrence (1515/16-82)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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