WYATT, Sir Thomas I (by 1504-42), of Allington Castle, Kent.

Family and Education

b. by 1504, 1st s. of Sir Henry Wyatt of Allington Castle by Anne, da. of John Skinner of Reigate, Surr. educ. St. John’s, Camb. BA 1518, MA 1520. m. by 1521, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Brooke, 8th Lord Cobham, 1s. Sir Thomas II; 2s. illegit. by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Edward Darrell of Littlecote, Wilts.; 1 da. (?illegit.). Kntd. ?28 Mar. 1535. suc. fa. 10 Nov. 1536.Date of birth estimated from education. DNB; Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt ed. Nott, ii. ped.; Pprs. Geo. Wyatt (Cam. Soc. ser. 4, v), 5, 6; C142/65/90, 82/64; LP Hen. VIII, xviii, xix; Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. n.s. xxv. 135; information from Dr. D. R. Starkey; Jnl. Eng. and Germanic Philology, lx. 268-72.

Offices Held

Esquire of the body by 1524; clerk of the King’s jewels 21 Oct. 1524; marshal, Calais by Sept. 1529 – 24 Nov. 1530; sewer extraordinary by 1533; sheriff, Kent 1536 – 37; ambassador to the Emperor 1537 – 40; Councillor by 1540 – d.; commr. sewers, Kent 1540; steward, manor of Maidstone, Kent Mar. 1542.LP Hen. VIII, ii, iv, v, xi, xvi, xvii; P. T. J. Morgan, ‘The govt. of Calais, 1485–1558’ (Oxf. Univ. D.Phil. thesis, 1966), 295; Works, ii. p. lxxiv.

Parlimentarian

WYATT, Sir Thomas I (by 1504-42), of Allington Castle, Kent.

Main residence: Allington Castle, Kent.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion