NOWELL, Robert (c.1520-69), of Gray’s Inn and Hendon, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1520, 4th s. of John Nowell of Read, Lancs. by his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Robert Kay of Rochdale, Lancs. educ. Middleton g.s. Lancs.; Brasenose, Oxf.; G. Inn 1544. prob. unm. A. B. Grosart, The Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell, pp. xxxi, xxxv, xxxvi.

Offices Held

Eccles. commr. Canterbury, Chichester, Rochester and Winchester dioceses 1559; Autumn reader, G. Inn 1561; attorney of ct. of wards from 1561; steward to dean and chapter of St. Paul’s; commr. to audit accounts in the Queen’s household 1565;HMC 11th Rep. III, 94; CPR, 1560–3, p. 6; Grosart, xxxvi. j.p. Mdx. from 1564.

Parlimentarian

NOWELL, Robert (c.1520-69), of Gray’s Inn, London and Hendon, Mdx.

Main residences: Gray's Inn; Hendon, Mdx.

Author

S.M.T.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

NOWELL, Robert (c.1520-69)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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