Constituency Dates
Dartmouth 15421Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2002, f. 16v.
Family and Education
b. by 1482. m. by 1532, Agnes, 2s. 2da.2Date of birth estimated from first reference. H. R. Watkin, Pre-Reformation Dartmouth, 304; PCC 20 Powell.
Offices Held

2nd bailiff, Dartmouth 1524 – 25, 1st bailiff 1525 – 26, mayor 1531 – 32, 1532 – 33, 1541 – 42, common councilman by 1541.3Watkin, 187; Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2003, f. 6.

Address
Main residence: Dartmouth, Devon.
biography text

John Anthony was a Dartmouth merchant who traded mainly in linen but was also a general supplier. From 1503 he occupied a house on the Glovers’ Quay where in 1550 he was assessed towards the subsidy on goods valued at 20s. In 1514 he served as a purser aboard the Christopher of Dartmouth with the royal fleet. His municipal career followed the usual progression and culminated in his return to the Parliament of 1542. He shared a payment of £11 10s. with his fellow-Member William Holland after the first session and was the sole recipient of £8 2s. after the second, presumably on both occasions at the rate of 1s.6d. a day: no record of payment for the third session has been found. Anthony died between making his will on 8 June 1552 and its being proved on 12 Aug. following. After remembering the poor at Dartmouth he provided for his mother-in-law, wife and children and named his wife executrix and William Richards and Robert Holland supervisors.4Watkin, 164, 178, 327, 343; E179/99/321; LP Hen. VIII, i; Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2002, ff. 16v, 17v; PCC 20 Powell.

Author
R.V.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Notes
  • 1. Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2002, f. 16v.
  • 2. Date of birth estimated from first reference. H. R. Watkin, Pre-Reformation Dartmouth, 304; PCC 20 Powell.
  • 3. Watkin, 187; Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2003, f. 6.
  • 4. Watkin, 164, 178, 327, 343; E179/99/321; LP Hen. VIII, i; Exeter city lib. Dartmouth mss 2002, ff. 16v, 17v; PCC 20 Powell.