TREGONWELL, Sir John (by 1498-1565), of Milton Abbas, Dorset.

Family and Education

b. by 1487. educ. London Coll., Oxf. by Nov. 1512, BCL 30 June 1516, DCL 21 July 1522; adv. Doctors’ Commons 9 Dec. 1522. m. (1) ?Elizabeth Bruce; (2) Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Keilway of Rockbourne, Hants, wid. of Robert Martin of Athelhampton, Dorset; at least 1s. 2da. Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553.Date of birth estimated from education. Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, pp. 575-6; Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 92-93; Hutchins, Dorset, i. 161; PCC 17 Morrison; J. H. Bettey, ‘Sir John Tregonwell of Milton Abbey’, Procs. Dorset. Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. xc. 295-302; DNB.

Offices Held

Principal, Vine Hall or Peckwater Inn, Oxf. in 1530; commr. piracy 1527, to receive and examine papal bulls 1536, relief, Dorset 1550, appeal of Bp. Bonner Aug. 1553; other commissions from 1534; envoy, the Netherlands 1532, France 1545; principal judge, ct. of Admiralty by 1535, re-apptd. Aug. 1540; master in Chancery by 1536; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1536, 1539, 1542, Oct. 1553, Nov. 1554, 1555 and 1558; canon and prebendary of Westminster in 1553; sheriff, Som. and Dorset 1553 – 54; PC Feb. 1555 – ?58; j.p.q. Dorset 1558/59; collector for loan 1562.Oxf. Univ. Arch. T/S cal. chancellor’s ct. reg. EEE, p. 174 (f. 228); LP Hen. VIII, iv-vii, xi, xiv, xv, xx; CPR, 1550–3, p. 142; 1553, p. 352; 1553–4, p. 75; 1554–5, p. 106; 1560–3, p. 436; 1563–6, pp. 21, 37, 42; LJ, i. 84, 103, 165, 447, 464, 492, 513; APC, v. 96; Osborn coll. Yale Univ. Lib. 71.6.41.

Parlimentarian

TREGONWELL, Sir John (by 1498-1565), of Milton Abbas, Dorset.

Main residence: Milton Abbas, Dorset.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

TREGONWELL, Sir John (by 1498-1565)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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