Family and Education
b. by 1512, 2nd s. of Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks. by Beatrice, da. of Sir Richard Woodruffe of Woolley, Yorks. m. (1) by 1542, Isabella (b.1524), da. and h. of Percival Whitley of Whitley, 3s. 5da.; (2) July/Nov. 1556, Agnes, wid. of Roger More of Bicester, Oxon. and Thomas Curzon of Waterperry, Oxon., s.p.Date of birth estimated from first reference. Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 346; PCC 9 Powell, 26 More, 2 Welles; Surtees Soc. cvi. 241; CPR, 1555-7, p. 508; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 56; Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 3), i. 209; E150/249/12, 14, 653/6; Leeds univ. lib. Wentworth-Woolley M41-43 ex inf. Dr. C. E. Challis.
Offices Held
Clerk of the kitchen by 1533, chief clerk 1540; master of the Household by Aug. 1546 – Jan. 1558, cofferer Jan. 1558 – d.; steward, Langton in the Wold, Yorks. 1536, Catton and Pocklington, Yorks. 1540, Castle Sowerby, Penrith and Scotby, Cumb. 1542; gen. receiver and surveyor, Eye and Westhorpe, Suff. and other crown lands 1545.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Whitley, Yorks.; Mendham, Suff.; Cannon Row, Westminster, Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
WENTWORTH, Michael (by 1512-58)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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