HESKETH, Thomas (1548-1605), of Whitehill and Preston, Lancs. Heslington, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 1548, 2nd s. of Gabriel Hesketh of Aughton, Lancs. by Jane, da. of Sir Henry Halsall of Halsall. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. by 1568; Camb. univ.; G. Inn 1572, called 1580. m. Juliana, da. of Edward or Edmund Fusey of London, 1s. Kntd. 1603.Vis. Lancs. 1613 (Chetham Soc. lxxxii), i. 22; Ath. Cant. ii. 412, 554.

Offices Held

Commr. recusants, Lancs. and Staffs. 1592; escheator, Lancs. 1588 – 97; duchy of Lancaster attorney 1591; Trinity reader, G. Inn 1595, Lent reader 1596; recorder, Lancaster 1597; attorney of ct. of wards from 1597; member, council in the north Oct. 1598 – d.; counsel to Camb. univ. c. 1600; j.p. Lancs. from 1577; j.p.q. Yorks. (East, West, North Ridings) 1601; jt. (with Ralph Barton) vice-chancellor of the duchy at Lancaster to 1592, sole from 1592.Cath. Rec. Soc. xviii. 161–4, 299; CSP Dom. 1595–7, p. 390; 1598–1601, p. 272; Somerville, Duchy, i. 467, 481, 484; G. Inn Pension Bk. i. 99; Reid, Council of the North, 496; Ath. Cant. ii. 412.

Parlimentarian

HESKETH, Sir Thomas (1547/8-1605), of Heslington, Yorks., Preston, Lancs. and Gray’s Inn, London

Main residences: Whitehill; Preston, Lancs.; Heslington, Yorks.

Author

N.M.S.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

HESKETH, Thomas (1548-1605)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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