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William Soame

William Soame

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William Soame (1579–1655) was a prominent English merchant, landowner and politician. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1633 and a committeeman on one of the Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers.[1]

He was the eldest son of Stephen Soame (c. 1540 – 1619) and his wife, Anne Stone (1555–1622), daughter of William Stone, haberdasher of London.[2] He was the elder brother of:[2]

He married Bridget, daughter and heir of Benedict Barnham, an alderman of London. Her sister Alice married Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban in 1606.


References

  1. [1]
    Holmes, Clive (1970). The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers, 1644–1646. Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society.
  2. [2]
    '366. Soame, of Thurlow, Suffolk', in A. Collins, The English Baronetage (Thomas Watton, London 1741), III, Part II, pp. 715–20, at p. 717-18 (Google). View image at Flickr.
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