Family and Education
s. and h. of Roger Widdrington (d.1451) of Widdrington by Elizabeth (d.1454), da. of Sir Thomas Gray (d.1415) of Wark, Northumb., and wid. of Sir William Whitchester (d.1424) of Benwell and Seaton Delaval, Northumb. m. bef. Sept. 1454, Elizabeth, da. of Christopher Boynton of Sedbury, Yorks. 1s. 1da. Kntd. between 13 Nov. and 10 Dec. 1461. Hist. Northumb. ix. 145; W.P. Hedley, Northumb. Fams. i. 97-98, 103-4; J. Hodgson, Hist. Northumb. ii (2), 297; CPR, 1461-7, pp. 66, 569.
Offices Held
Attestor, parlty. elections, Northumb. 1450, 1460.
Commr. of array, Northumb. May, Nov. 1461.
J.p. Northumb. 10 Dec. 1461 – d.
Sheriff, Northumb. 5 Nov. 1464–5.
Main residences: Widdrington; Haughton Castle, Northumb.
Woddryngton, Wyddrington, Wytheryngton
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
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Oxford 1644
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