WENTWORTH, Sir Thomas II (by 1525-84), of Nettlestead, Suff., Westminster and Stepney, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. by 1525, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Wentworth I, 1st Lord Wentworth. educ. ?St. John’s, Camb. m. (1) settlement 9 Feb. 1546, Mary (d.1554) da. of Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield, Essex, s.p.; (2) by 1556, Anne or Agnes (d.1574), da. of Henry Wentworth of Mountnessing, Essex, 2s. 1da.; ?(3). Kntd. 28 Sept. 1547; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord Wentworth 3 Mar. 1551.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., E150/648/18. DNB; CP; W. L. Rutton, Three Branches of the Fam. Wentworth, 39-52, 143-201.

Offices Held

Jt. ld. lt. Suff. 1552 – 53, 1560 – 61, Norf. and Suff. 1569; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of Mar. 1553, 1563, 1571; PC 21 Aug. 1553–8; dep. Calais Dec. 1553 – Jan. 1558; j.p. Suff. 1554, q. 1558/ 59-?d., Mdx. 1561, q. 1577–?d.; commr. goods of churches and fraternities Suff. 1553; other commissions, Essex, Suff., and eastern counties 1564–d.APC , iv. 50, 277, 323; vi. 85; J. Daus, A Hundred Sermons on the Apocalypse by H. Bullinger (1861), dedication; G. S. Thomson, Lds. Lts. 50; LJ, i. 430, 581, 667; P. T. J. Morgan, ‘The govt. of Calais, 1485–1558’ (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1966), 294; CPR, 1553–4, pp. 24, 67; 1560–3, pp. 439, 442; 1563–6, pp. 130, 141, 221–2; 1569–72, pp. 217–18.

Parlimentarian

WENTWORTH, Sir Thomas II (by 1525-84), of Nettlestead, Suff., Westminster and Stepney, Mdx.

Main residences: Nettlestead, Suff.; Westminster; Stepney, Mdx.

Author

M.K.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

WENTWORTH, Sir Thomas II (by 1525-84)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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