ACWORTH, George (c.1539-c.92), of Cambridge, Winchester, London and Ireland.

Family and Education

b. c.1539, 4th s. of Thomas Acworth, merchant taylor of London, by his w. Ann. educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 1548, BA 1552, fellow 1554, MA 1555; Louvain; Paris; Padua; LLD Camb. 1561; adv. 1562; incorp. Oxf. c.1566. m. by 1565, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Robert Horne, bp. of Winchester, at least 3s. 1da.Misc. Gen. et Her. ser. 4, i. 57; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 209.

Offices Held

Public orator Camb. Univ. 1559; chancellor, diocese of Winchester by 1563; j.p.q. Hants by 1564, rem. by 1573; commr. Channel Islands, for crown lands and Queen’s new school at Guernsey 1564; visitor, diocese of Canterbury 1573; rector of Wroughton, Wilts. 1575; master of faculties and judge of prerogative ct. [I] 1577; vic.-gen. to abp. of Armagh by 1581, ?later to abp. of Dublin. Cam. Misc. ix(3), p. 54; CPR, 1563–6, pp. 124–5; Strype, Parker, ii. 300, 308, Grindal, 347; CSP Ire. passim.

Parlimentarian

ACWORTH, George (c.1539-c.92), of Cambridge, Winchester, London and Ireland.

Main residences: Cambridge; Winchester; London; Ireland, [I].

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

ACWORTH, George (c.1539-c.92)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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