RIDGEWAY, John (by 1517-60), of the Middle Temple, London, and Newton Abbot, Abbotskerswell and Tor Mohun, Devon.

Family and Education

b. by 1517, s. of Michael Ridgeway of Newton Abbot. educ. M. Temple. m. by 1542, Elizabeth, da. of John Wendford of Newton Abbot, 1s. Thomas 2da.Date of birth estimated from first reference. J. E. Kew, ‘The land market in Devon 1536-58’ (Exeter Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1967), 347-8; Vis. Devon, ed. Colby, 183; Vis. Devon, ed. Vivian, 647; Wards 7/8/48.

Offices Held

Jt. feodary, Devon 3 June 1538; jt. chief steward for Torre abbey, Devon 1538 – 39; jt. receiver-gen. Devon, Dorset and Som. for Syon abbey 1538 – 39; j.p. Devon 1540 – d., q. 1554; commr. relief 1550; escheator, Devon and Cornw. 1554 – 55; recorder, Totnes by 1554.LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xv, xvi, xviii, xx; CPR, 1553, p. 352; 1553–4, p. 18; Devon Monastic Lands (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. n.s. i), passim; Devon RO, 1579/A1v.

Parlimentarian

RIDGEWAY, John (by 1517-60), of the Middle Temple, London, and Newton Abbot, Abbotskerswell and Tor Mohun, Devon.

Main residence: the Middle Temple, London, and Newton Abbot, Abbotskerswell and Tor Mohun, Devon.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

RIDGEWAY, John (by 1517-60)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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