WILKES, Thomas (d.1598), of Downton, Wilts.; later of Rickmansworth, Herts.

Family and Education

educ. All Souls, Oxf. 1572, BA and fellow 1573. m. (1) bef. 1584, Margaret (d. bef. 1597), da. of Ambrose Smith, mercer of London; (2) Frances, da. of Sir John Savage of Rocksavage, Cheshire, 1da. Kntd. 1591.

Offices Held

Sec. to ambassador to France 1573; envoy to Elector Palatine 1575; clerk of PC from 1576; ambassador to Spain 1577 – 78, to Don John of Austria 1578; freeman, Southampton by 1581; envoy to Netherlands 1578, 1582, 1586; English member of Netherlands council of state 1586 – 87; envoy to Duke of Parma 1588; ambassador to Netherlands 1590 – 91, to France 1592, 1593, to the Archduke 1594, to France 1598.DNB; Reg. Univ. Oxon. i. ed. Boase, 274; Vis. Leics. (Harl. Soc. ii), 66; Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 205–6; PCC 40 Montague, 14 Watson, 36 Lewyn.

J.p. Wilts. 1583 – 93, Herts. from c.1593.

Parlimentarian

WILKES, Thomas (d.1598), of Downton, Wilts.; later of Rickmansworth, Herts.

Main residences: Downton, Wilts.; Rickmansworth, Herts.

Author

S.T.B.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

WILKES, Thomas (-d.1598)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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