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b. c. 1411, He was born after May 1410, when his father settled his lands in remainder on his two sons, Hugh and Richard: CCR, 1409-13, pp. 211-12. 3rd s. and event. h. of John ap Harry† (d.1420) of Poston by Elizabeth (d.1420), da. and h. of Sir Hugh Waterton (d.1410) of Eaton Tregoze in Foy, Herefs. The MP’s parentage has to be inferred. A lawsuit of 1457 names his mother as Elizabeth; other sources show that he inherited property in Herefs. that had once descended from Hen. IV’s chamberlain, Sir Hugh Waterton, to Sir Hugh’s da. and coh. Elizabeth, wife of John ap Harry. If, as seems almost certain, the two Elizabeths were the same, our MP must have been her son or grandson. She is known to have had at least two sons, the yr. of whom, Richard ap Harry, was born at Poston on 1 Apr. 1409: KB27/785, rot. 57d; CIPM, xxi. 578-9; xxiii. 598. Since Thomas first appears in the records in 1438 he cannot have been Richard’s son; he must, therefore, have been his yr. bro., in other words, the 3rd s. of Elizabeth Waterton. educ. G. Inn. m. (1) at least 1s.; (2) between 8 and 12 Sept. 1453, Joan, da. of Sir Laurence Merbury of Marbury, Cheshire, wid. of Thomas de la Mare of Little Hereford and Ralph Lingen (d. Dec. 1452) of Sutton, Herefs., s.p.
Offices Held

Escheator, Herefs. 6 Nov. 1442 – 4 Nov. 1443, 6 Nov. 1444 – 4 Nov. 1445.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Hereford castle Feb. 1443, Mar. 1444 (q.), Hereford Oct. 1449 (q.), June 1450, Hereford castle Oct. 1451 (q.), May 1452 (q.), Oct. 1453, Oct. 1455 (q.), Hereford Feb. 1457 (q.), Hereford castle June (q.), Oct. 1457 (q.), Nov. 1459 (q.), Dec. 1470 (q.); C66/455, m. 11d; 457, m. 22d; 471, mm. 14d, 20d; 474, m. 24d; 475, m. 31d; 478, m. 21d; 481, m. 24d; 482, m. 7d; 483, m. 18d; 484, m. 13d; 488, m. 19d; 491, m. 16d. inquiry, Herefs. 1445 (lands of John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope), Sept. 1448 (confederacies against statutes of labourers and escapes of prisoners), Glos. Feb. 1450, Herefs. Mar. 1450 (lands of Henry, duke of Warwick), Apr. 1451 (value of ldship. of Pembroke), N. Wales July 1452 (unpaid royal revenues), Mon. Aug. 1458 (treasons); to distribute allowance on tax, Herefs. Aug. 1449; treat for loans Sept. 1449; assess subsidy Aug. 1450; of oyer and terminer, Carm., Card. May 1451 (treasons), Glos., Herefs., Salop, Staffs., Worcs., Wales Feb. 1460, Wales Mar. 1460, Glos. Jan. 1471; of arrest, Herefs. Feb. 1457 (Thomas Pauncefoot* and other oppressors of abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester); array Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459; to assign archers Dec. 1457; to take assize of novel disseisin, Oxon. Feb. 1460 (q.). C66/488, m. 5d.

J.p.q. Herefs. 16 Feb. 1443 – July 1461, 6 Dec. 1470–?, No new Herefs. bench was enrolled on the patent roll between the restoration of Edw. IV and Feb. 1473. Mdx. 12 May 1456-Sept. 1461.

Justice itinerant, Humphrey, earl of Stafford’s ldship. of Huntington 20 May 1444 – ?; dep. justice of S. Wales to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, 1444 – 47, to John, Lord Beauchamp of Powick c.1450–1458. Records of great sessions show he was in office as dep. justice in June 1451, May 1453, Mar. 1456, May and June 1458: SC6/1168/7, m. 1d; 1224, m. 1; 1168/8, m. 1d; 1162/8, m. 6; R.A. Griffiths, Principality of Wales, i. 151.

Apprentice-at-law retained by duchy of Lancaster 1452–61. R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 454.

Chamberlain, S. Wales 1460 – 61.

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FITZHARRY, Thomas (c.1411-c.1472), of Poston in Vowchurch, Herefs.
Main residence: Poston in Vowchurch, Herefs.
ap Harry, Fitzhenry, Fitzherry
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S.J.P.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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