Family and Education
b. by 1480, 1st s. of James Walsingham of Scadbury by Eleanor, da. and event. coh. of Walter Writtle of Bobbingworth, Essex. m. (1) by 1510, Catherine, da. and h. of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surr. and Brecon, Brec., wid. of Henry Morgan of Pencoed, Mon., 4s. inc. Thomas 4da.; (a) by 1543, Anne, da. of Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suff., wid. of Lord Edward Grey (d. by 1517), ?of one Berkeley, of Henry Barley (d.12 Nov. 1529) of Albury, Herts., and of Sir Robert Drury I (d.2 Mar. 1535) of Hawstead, Suff., s.p. Kntd. 13 Sept. 1513; suc. fa. 10 Dec. 1540.Date of birth estimated from family history. LP Hen. VIII, xviii; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxiv), 20; Vis. Surr. (ibid. xliii), 11, 33; Vis. Suss. (ibid. liii), 59; Arch. Cant. xiii. 390, 401; E. A. Webb, G. W. Miller and J. Beckwith, Chislehurst, 119, 125; PCC 27 Alenger; DNB.
Offices Held
J.p. Surr. 1514, Kent 1547; sewer in 1521; 1t. Tower 1521 – 43; commr. subsidy, Surr. 1523, 1524, ordnance in Tower 1533, 1536, musters, Surr. 1544, benevolence, Surr. Southwark 1544/45; other commissions Essex, Kent, Surr. and London 1525 – d., vice-chamberlain, household of Queen Catherine Parr by 1544.
Main residence: Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
WALSINGHAM, Sir Edmund (by 1480-1550)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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