STANLEY, Sir Thomas (1532/33-76), of Winwick, Lancs. and Tong, Salop.

Family and Education

b. 1532/33, 2nd s. of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, by Dorothy, da. of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. m. Margaret, da. and coh. of (Sir) George Vernon of Haddon, Derbys., 2s. Kntd. 2 Oct. 1553.Date of birth estimated from elder brother’s and from presumption that he was of age at election. CP; P. Draper, House of Stanley, 52; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529-58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 617-18.

Offices Held

?Commr. goods of churches and fraternities, Lancs. 1552, musters 1569; lt. I.o.M. in 1562; mayor, Liverpool 1568–9.VCH Lancs. ii. 97; Watson, 618; Liverpool Archs. 13th-17th Cent. ed. Picton, 34; Liverpool Town Bks. ed. Twemlow, i. 224, 383.

Parlimentarian

STANLEY, Sir Thomas (1532/33-76), of Winwick, Lancs. and Tong, Salop.

Main residences: Winwick, Lancs.; Tong, Salop.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

STANLEY, Sir Thomas (1532/33-76)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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