WHALLEY, Richard (1498/99-1583), of Kirton, Welbeck and Sibthorpe, Notts. and Wimbledon, Surr.

Family and Education

b. 1498 /99, o.s. of Thomas Whalley of Kirton, by 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of John Strelley of Woodborough, Notts. educ. St. John’s, Camb. m. (1) Laura, da. of Thomas Brockman or Brookman of Essex 5 ch.; (2) by 1540, Ursula, 13 ch.; (3) Barbara, 7 ch.Aged 84 at death according to MI, J. T. Godfrey, Notts. Churches: Hundred of Bingham, 391. Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 116-17; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 161; DNB.

Offices Held

J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1538 – 47, (E. Riding) 1547 – 50, Notts. 1543, 1554, q. 1558/59; commr. musters, Yorks. (N. Riding) 1539, chantries, Yorks., Hull and York 1546, 1548, relief, Notts., Yorks. (E. Riding) 1550; comptroller, household of 1st Earl of Rutland Dec. 1540 – Nov. 1541; receiver, ct. augmentations Yorks. 1545 – June 1552; esquire of the body by 1545; jt. keeper, castle and parks at Wressell and bailiwick, E. Riding 1546; chamberlain, household of Duke of Somerset by 1547.LP Hen. VIII, xiii-xv, xviii, xx, xxi; CPR , 1547–8, p. 92; 1548–9, p. 136; 1553, pp. 353, 357; 1553–4, p. 22; 1563–6, p. 38; HMC Rutland, iv. 307; SP12/2, f. 53; HMC Bath, iv. 338; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 55.

Parlimentarian

WHALLEY, Richard (1498/99-1583), of Kirton, Welbeck and Sibthorpe, Notts. and Wimbledon, Surr.

Main residence: Kirton, Welbeck and Sibthorpe, Notts. and Wimbledon, Surr.

Author

C.J.B.

R.J.W.S.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

WHALLEY, Richard (1498/99-1583)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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