TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs. and St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.

Family and Education

b. c. 1524, o.s. of Thomas Tamworth of Lincs. and Essex by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Philip Denkaring. m. 1562, Christian, da. of William Walsingham, sis. of Sir Francis, 1da. suc. fa. 1533.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 947-8; C142/55/58; C. H. Garrett, Marian Exiles, 302.

Offices Held

Clerk of Windsor castle and receiver-gen. of Oxon., Berks. and Oxford from 1559; groom of privy chamber and keeper of privy purse from Jan. 1559; master of the toyles from c. 1560; freeman, London from 1560; receiver-gen. Lincs. and Lincoln 1559, 1562; j.p.q. Essex from c.1559.CPR, 1558–60, pp. 108, 431; 1560–3, p. 342; E. K. Chambers, Eliz. Stage, i. 62; Nichols, Progresses Eliz. i. 264–73; Lansd. 4, ff. 57–61.

Parlimentarian

TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs. and St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.

Main residences: Sandon, Essex and Sutton, Lincs. and St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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