BARHAM, Nicholas (d.1577), of Maidstone and Boxley, Kent.

Family and Education

1st s. of Richard Barham of Wadhurst, Suss. by his w. Alice Cradock. educ. ?an inn of chancery; G. Inn 1540, called 1542. m. Mary, da. of John Holt of Cheshire, 1s. 1da.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxiv), 25; Woolrych, Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law, i. 170; DNB.

Offices Held

Ancient, G. Inn 1552, Lent reader 1558; of counsel to Maidstone by 1561, recorder and town clerk 1562; j.p.q. Kent 1562; serjeant-at-law 1567; justice of assize in Leics. and Lincs. 1569; Queen’s serjeant by Jan. 1572.Maidstone Recs. 14; J. M. Russell, Hist. Maidstone, 187; CPR, 1566–9, pp. 425–6; Howell, State Trials, i. 958 seq.

Parlimentarian

BARHAM, Nicholas (d.1577), of Maidstone and Boxley, Kent.

Main residences: Maidstone; Boxley, Kent.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BARHAM, Nicholas (-d.1577)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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