LEE, Sir Richard (1501/2-75), of Sopwell, Herts.

Family and Education

b. 1501 /2 s. of Richard Lee of Sopwell by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Hall I of Ore, Suss. m. 1537 Margaret, da. of (Sir) Richard Grenville I of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornw., 2da. Kntd. 11 May 1544.Aged 52 in 1554, C24/34/29. Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 149; LP Hen. VIII, xii, xix.

Offices Held

?Page of King’s cups by July 1528; surveyor, Calais 8 Aug. 1536–42; receiver-gen. ct. wards Mar. 1544 – Jan. 1545; surveyor, King’s works by 1545- 1 May 1547, Berwick 6 Jan. 1558 – 29 Sept. 1567; j.p. Herts. 1543 – 61, q. 1562 – d.; commr. benevolence, Herts. 1544/45, musters 1546, chantries, Essex, Herts. and Colchester 1546, relief Herts. 1550; bailiff, liberty of St. Albans, Herts. by d. LP Hen. VIII, iv, xi, xviii-xxi; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 84, 231; 1550–3, p. 141; 1553, p. 354; 1557–8, pp. 12, 71; 1560–3, p. 438; 1572–5, p. 494; The King’s Works, iii. 395, 406, 416, 419.

Parlimentarian

LEE, Sir Richard (1501/2-75), of Sopwell, Herts.

Main residence: Sopwell, Herts.

Author

D.F.C.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

LEE, Sir Richard (1501/2-75)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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