Family and Education
b. c. 1506, 2nd s. of Francis Southwell (d.1512) by Dorothy, da. and coh. of William Tendring of Little Birch, Essex; bro. of Francis and Richard. educ. M. Temple, called. m. 1535, Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Neville of Mereworth, 4s. 3da. Kntd. 16 Jan. 1542.Date of birth estimated from elder and younger brothers’. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 260-1; Wriothesley’s Chron. i (Cam. Soc. n.s. xi), 133.
Offices Held
Autumn reader, M. Temple 1540.
Common serjeant, London 1535 – 36; solicitor, ct. augmentations 1536 – 37, attorney 1537 – 40; j.p. Kent, Norf. 1538 – 54, Surr. 1541 – d., Suff. 1544 – d., Suss. 1544 – d., Essex 1547 – 54; Councillor 1540; master of requests 1540; master of rolls 1541 – 50; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1542, 1545 and 1547; various commissions, largely in Kent 1550 – 56; sheriff, Kent 1553–4.
Main residences: London; Mereworth, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
SOUTHWELL, Robert (c.1506-59)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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