BAGNALL, Sir Ralph (by 1508-80), of Dieulacresse, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. by 1508, 1st s. of John Bagnall of Newcastle-under-Lyme; bro. of Sir Nicholas. m. (1) by 1546, Mary, da. of John Onley ‘of Salop’, wid. of Sir George Cotton of Combermere, Cheshire; (2) Elizabeth, da. of Robert Whitgreve of Burton, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 1558. Kntd. 29 Sept. 1547.N. and Q. (ser. 4), ii. 292; J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), i. 325-7; Erdeswick’s Surv. Staffs . 493; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii(1), 414-15; LP Hen. VIII, xxi(1), pp. 323, 777.

Offices Held

Lt. of the army in Ireland and member of the council in Ireland July 1550–3; surveyor of kerseys at London and Southampton 23 Nov. 1549 – 16 Oct. 1553; mayor, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1554 – 55, lessee of the manor from c. 1567; j.p. Staffs. from 1564, sheriff 1560–1.CPR, 1548–9, p. 247; 1553–4, p. 392; Cal. Carew Pprs. 1515–74, p. 227; Cal. Pat. and Cl. Rolls, Chancery in Ireland, i. 219; T. Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 192; VCH Staffs. viii. 184.

Parlimentarian

BAGNALL, Sir Ralph (by 1508-80), of Stoke-upon-Trent and Dieulacres, Staffs.

Main residence: Dieulacresse, Staffs.

Author

R.V.

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BAGNALL, Sir Ralph (by 1508-80)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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