Family and Education
b. 1482 /83, yst. s. of John Wigston of Leicester, Leics. by Elizabeth, da. of one Gillot. educ. I. Temple, adm. 1514. m. by 1509, Christian, da. and coh. of Edward Langley, wid. of William Pye, 2s. inc. William 4da.Aged 36 in 1519, Pollard mss in custody of HP. A. H. Thompson, Wyggeston Hospital Recs. p. xiv; LP Hen. VIII, iii, xiii; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 37; PCC 15 Spert.
Offices Held

Commr. subsidy, Leicester 1515, Coventry 1523, 1524, enclosures, midlands 1517, for survey of monasteries, Warws. 1536, loan 1542; receiver, Beaumont lands 1516 – 30, jt. (with Sir John Dauntesey) receiver-gen., wards’ lands Feb. 1518 – Oct. 1520; j.p. Warws. 1522 – d., Salop and Staffs. 1536 – d., Worcs., Glos. 1537 – d., Herefs. 1538 – d., Cheshire 1539 – d.; recorder, Coventry by 1524 – 41; receiver, duchy of Lancaster, Tutbury honor, surveyor and receiver, Castle Donington 1528 – 42; gen. surveyor, King’s woods 1530, member, council in the marches of Wales 1534; solicitor, Kenilworth abbey, Warws. and St. Mary’s college, Warwick by 1536; steward, Pinley priory, Warws. by 1536; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1541–2.LP Hen. VIII, ii-iv, vii, x-xii, xviii, add.; Statutes, iii. 169; E179/123/120, 133/120; H. E. Bell, Ct. of Wards and Liveries, 10; Somerville, Duchy, i. 544; Coventry Leet Bk. (EETS cxxxiv), ii. passim; Val. Eccles. iv. 5n; Leicester Recs. iii. 34.

Main residence: Wolston, Warws.
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Commons 1509-1558
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WIGSTON, Roger (1482/83-1542)

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Oxford 1644
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