Family and Education
b. c. 1560, Age calculated from date of admiss. to I. Temple. 1st s. of John Dyott of Stychbrook and Lichfield, Staffs. and Catherine, da. of John Weston of Lichfield. educ. Clement’s Inn; I. Temple 1576, called 1587. I. Temple Admiss.; CITR, i. 346. m. (1) 1582, Staffs. RO, D661/2/791, transcript of letter from Edgar Harcourt to R.A. Dyott, 1935. Catherine (bur. 24 June 1602), da. of John Harcourt of Ranton Abbey, Staffs., 4s. (1 d.v.p.), Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1884), pp. 117-19. 2da.; Staffs. RO, D661/1/44. This document mentions three daughters - Anne, Mary and Katherine - but Anne seems to have been Dyott’s da. by his 2nd wife. (2) 24 May 1604, Dorothy (d. bef. 1622), da. of Edward Boughton† of Cawston, Warws., wid. of one Sheffield, a lawyer, 1da. J. Hunter, Hallamshire, 121; C2/Chas.I/D39/24; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 83. suc. fa. 1578. Vis. Staffs. 119. bur. 17 Apr. 1622 17 Apr. 1622. Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 208. sig. Anth[ony] Dyot.
Offices Held

Commr. i.p.m. John Ferrers, Essex 1587, Draft CPR, 1585–7 (L. and I. Soc. ccxliii), 90. subsidy, Lichfield 1608, aid, Staffs. and Lichfield 1609; SP14/31/1; 14/43/107. j.p. Staffs. 1609–d., Staffs. Q. Sess. Rolls, vi. 1608–9 ed. D.H.G. Salt (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1950), p. 116; C193/13/1. custos rot., Lichfield 1611–?d. C181/2, f. 151; 181/3, ff. 52, 59.

Auditor, steward’s acct. (jt.), I. Temple 1597; recorder, Tamworth, Staffs. 1599-at least 1603; Add. 28175, f. 57; C.F. Palmer, Hist. Tamworth, app. p. xxiv; HMC Hatfield, xv. 51. bencher, I. Temple 1599 – d., reader’s attendant (jt.) 1601, Lent reader 1602, auditor to treas. (jt.) 1604 – 06, auditor to steward (jt.) 1609 – 10, treas. 1611–12. CITR, i. 419, 427, 440, 443; ii. 3, 12, 44, 52, 62–9.

Member, Virg. Co. 1611–d. A. Brown, Genesis of US, 467, 546; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 323.

Main residences: Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/44; S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1844 edn.), 306.; Figtree Court, the Inner Temple, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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DYOTT, Anthony (c.1560-1622)

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