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Personal data Peter Wentworth 

• He was born in the year 1529 in Lillingstone, Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, England.
• He died on November 10, 1596 in Tower of London, he was 67 years old.
• A child of Nicholas Wentworth and Jane Josselyn
• This information was last updated on July 9, 2023.

Household of Peter Wentworth

He has/had a relationship with Elizabeth Walsingham.

Child(ren):

1. Mary Wentworth  ± 1557-1616 

Notes about Peter Wentworth

PETER WENTWORTH (1530-1596) was the elder brother of the above-mentioned
Paul, and like his brother was a prominent puritan leader in parliament,
which he first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He took a firm
attitude in support of the liberties of parliament against encroachments
of the royal prerogative, on which subject he delivered a memorable
speech on the 8th of February 1576, for which after examination by the
Star Chamber he was committed to the Tower. In February 1587 Sir Anthony
Cope (1548-1614) presented to the Speaker a bill abrogating the existing
ecclesiastical law, together with a puritan revision of the Prayer Book,
and Wentworth supported him by bringing forward certain articles touching
the liberties of the House of Commons; Cope and Wentworth were both
committed to the Tower for interference with the queen's ecclesiastical
prerogative. In 1593 Wentworth again suffered imprisonment for presenting
a petition on the subject of the succession to the Crown; and it is
probable that he did not regain his freedom, for he died in the Tower on
the loth of November 1596. While in the Tower he wrote A Pithie
Exhortationto her Majesty for establishing her Successor to the Crown, a
famous treatise preserved in the British Museum. Peter Wentworth was
twice married; his first wife, by whom he had no children, was a cousin
of Catherine Parr, and his second a sister of Sir Francis Walsingham,
Elizabeth's secretary of state. His third son, Thomas Wentworth (c.
1568-1623), was an ardent and sometimes a violent opponent of royal
prerogative in parliament, of which he became a member in 1604,
continuing to represent the city of Oxford from that year until his
death. He was called to the bar in 1594 and became recorder of Oxford in
1607. Another son, Walter Wentworth, was also a member of parliament.

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