Family and Education
b. by 1508, 1st s. of John Bagnall of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and 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, Staffs., 1s. 1da. Kntd. 29 Sept. 1547; suc. fa. 1558.Date of birth estimated from his brother’s. P. H. Bagenall, Vicissitudes of a Anglo-Irish Fam. 18, app.; Wm. Salt. Arch. Soc. iii. 147; J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), i. 325-7; T. Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 41; N. and Q. (ser. 4), ii. 292-3; Erdeswick, Staffs. 493; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii(1), 414-15; LP Hen. VIII, xxi.
Offices Held
Gent. pens. by Jan. 1547–33; surveyor of kerseys, ports of London and Southampton 23 Nov. 1549 – 16 Oct. 1553; lt. of the army in Ireland and member of the council July 1550–3; mayor, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1554 – 55; sheriff, Staffs. 1560 – 61; j.p. 1564–d.
Main residences: Stoke-upon-Trent; Dieulacres, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
BAGNALL, Sir Ralph (by 1508-80)
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Oxford 1644
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