Family and Education
b. prob. soon aft. 1492, 2nd s. of Sir Giles Brydges by Isabel, da. of Thomas Baynham; bro. of Sir John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos. m. (1) Jane, da. and coh. of John Sydenham of Orchard, Som., 1 or 2s. 2da.; ?(2) Anne, ?1s.CP, iii. 126; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v.), 201; PCC 13 Mellershe. His will refers to his wife as Anne, without describing her as the mother of any of his children. One son, Thomas, had been drowned in 1553. DNB (Brydges, Sir John) prob. copying Foxe calls Thomas ‘Sir’, but the 1558-9 commission of the peace, the Originalia Roll 1559 [E307/402(1)], and his own will, all have ‘esquire’.
Offices Held
J.p. Oxon. 1536, q. by 1559; j.p. Berks. 1541; jt. keeper with his e. bro. of Langley and Cornbury parks, Oxon, 1536; keeper of Marylebone park 1539; surveyor of Boulogne 1546; chantry commr. Oxon., Northants. and Rutland 1548, for church goods Oxon. 1553; assistant to his bro. as lt. of the Tower 1553 – 54, lt. during summer of 1554; sheriff Oxon. and Berks. 1556–7.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Cornbury, Oxon.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
BRYDGES, Thomas (-d.1559)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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