WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas (1561-1630), of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.

Family and Education

b. 1561, s. of Thomas Walsingham. m. Etheldreda or Audrey (d.1631), da. of Sir Ralph Shelton of Norf., 1s. suc. bro. Edmund 1589.E. A. Webb, G. W. Miller and J. Beckwith, Hist. Chislehurst, 112, 137, 420. Kntd. 1597.

Offices Held

J.p. Kent from c. 1592, dep. lt. 1595, commr. musters Apr. 1597; keeper, Eltham park 1600; chief keeper of the Queen’s wardrobe 1603; warden of Rochester bridge 1615.PRO Index 4208, ff. 78, 246; APC, xxvii. 109; CSP Dom. 1598–1601, p. 341; 1603–10, p. 79; F. F. Smith, Rochester in Parl. 106.

Parlimentarian

WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas I (1561-1630), of Scadbury, nr. Chislehurst, Kent; Walsingham House, nr. the Tiltyard, Whitehall and St. Stephen’s, Coleman Street, London.

Main residence: Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.

Author

R.C.G.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas (1561-1630)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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