Family and Education
b. 1498 /99, 2nd s. of John Wendy of Clare, Suff. educ. Gonville, Camb., BA 1518/19, MA 1522, MD 1526/27; Ferrara bef. 1527. m. (1) by 1541, Margaret, ?da. of one Butler, s.p.; (2) 13 June 1552, Margaret, da. of John Porter of London, wid. of Thomas Atkins of London.Aged 61 at death, W. Munk, Roll of R. Coll. of Physicians, i. 50. N. and Q. cc. 278, 329; J. Venn. Gonville and Caius Biog. Hist. i. 24; PCC 35 Mellershe; Vis. Cambs. (Harl. Soc. xli), 40; DNB.
Offices Held
Physician to Queen Catherine Parr by Oct. 1546–8, to Henry VIII by 1547, to Edward VI 1547 – 53, to Mary 1553 – 58, to Elizabeth 1558 – d.; fellow, college of physicians 22 Dec. 1551, elect 1552; pres. Gonville bef. 1559; j.p. Cambs. 1547, q. by 1554 – d.; commr. to visit Eton and Cambridge Univ. 1548, goods of churches and fraternities, Cambridge 1550, 1553, relief, Cambridge and Cambs. 1550.
Main residences: Haslingfield; Cambridge, Cambs.; London.
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Commons 1509-1558
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WENDY, Thomas (1498/99-1560)
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Oxford 1644
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