Ancestral Trails 2016 » Thomas EGERTON (1540-????)

Persönliche Daten Thomas EGERTON 

• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1540 in Dodleston, Cheshire.
• Titel: 1st Viscount Brackley
• Er ist verstorben am 15. März 1616/17 in York House,The Strand, London, Middlesex, er war 76 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Richard EGERTON und Alice SPARKS

Familie von Thomas EGERTON

(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Elizabeth RAVENSCROFT.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1573 in Ridley, Cheshire, er war 33 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Thomas EGERTON  1575-1599 
2. Mary EGERTON  1597-1612 
3. John EGERTON  1579-1649 

(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Alice SPENCER.

Sie haben geheiratet nach 1594.

Notizen bei Thomas EGERTON

Thomas Egerton was born in 1540 in the parish of Dodleston, Cheshire, England. He was the illegitimate son of Sir Richard Egerton and an unmarried woman named Alice Sparks. He was acknowledged by his father’s family, who paid for his education. He studied Liberal Arts at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in 1559. He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister. He was a Roman Catholic, until a point in 1570 when his lack of conformity with the Church of England when his Inn passed on a complaint from the Privy Council.
He built a respectable legal practice pleading cases in the Courts of Queen’s Bench, Chancery and Exchequer. After Queen Elizabeth I saw him plead a case against the crown he was made Queen's Counsel. In 1579 he was made a Master of the Bench of Lincoln’s Inn. On 28 June 1581 he was appointed Solicitor General.
He married Elizabeth Ravenscroft and by her fathered:
Thomas, who married Elizabeth Venables; their daughter, Mary, was married to Thomas Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh
John (his heir),
Mary, who married Sir Francis Leigh.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

Egerton, Thomas, first Viscount Brackley (1540-1617), lord chancellor, was born on 23 January 1540, the illegitimate son of Sir Richard Egerton, landowner, of Ridley, Cheshire, and a servant girl called Alice Sparke. His grandfather was Sir Ralph Egerton. His father's family claimed descent from Robert Fitzhugh, baron of Malpas, a contemporary of William I, and had assumed their surname from Egerton in Cheshire during the thirteenth century. One of several illegitimate siblings, Thomas Egerton was brought up in the household of Thomas Ravenscroft (d. c.1553), of Bretton, Flintshire, and his wife, Katherine.
SOURCE: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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