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Henry Macwilliam

Henry Macwilliam

16th-century English politician

Henry Macwilliam (c. 1532 – 1586) was a member of Parliament for Dorchester (1571), Liskeard (1572), Appleby (1584) and Carlisle (1586).[1]

He was the son of Henry Macwilliam (died 1539) and his second wife Elizabeth Leyes, a daughter of Sir John Leyes. His sister Anne married Arthur Stourton.[2][3]

His home was Stambourne Hall, Essex. He became Keeper of Colchester Castle.

He died on 27 December 1586.

Marriage and children

He married Mary Cheke, daughter of Richard Hill, sergeant of the wine cellar to Henry VIII, and widow of John Cheke (died 1557), a lady of Elizabeth I's privy chamber.[1] His children included:

References

  1. [1]
    MACWILLIAM, Henry (c.1532-86), of Stambourne Hall, Essex and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. [2]
    'STOURTON, Arthur (by 1525-58)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
  3. [3]
    The history of the noble house of Stourton, 1, p. 315
  4. [4]
    Thomas Wright, The history and topography of Essex, vol. 1, p. 640.
  5. [5]
    Sarah Williams (historian), Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Camden Society, 1861), p. 52.
  6. [6]
    PEMBERTON, Sir Goddard (c.1573-1616), of Hertingfordbury, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  7. [7]
    Victoria Burke, 'Anne, Lady Southwell', George Justice & Nathan Tinker, Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 99, 117 fn. 31.


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