Henry Macwilliam
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[edit]
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:
- Henry Macwilliam, who was killed by Tom Compton in a duel in 1599.[4][5]
- Margaret Macwilliam, married Sir John Stanhope (d. 1621)
- Susannah Macwilliam, married Edward Saunders or Sandys, (2) Goddard Pemberton, (3) Thomas Ireland.[6]
- Ambrosia Macwilliam, who married William Kingsmill, mother of William Kingsmill (died 1618)
- Cassandra Macwilliam , who married George Cotton (died 1613), grandmother of the poet Charles Cotton
- Cicely Macwilliam, who married Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Earl of Londonderry, she was said to have been a maid of honour to Elizabeth I.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b MACWILLIAM, Henry (c.1532-86), of Stambourne Hall, Essex and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ 'STOURTON, Arthur (by 1525-58)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
- ^ The history of the noble house of Stourton, 1, p. 315
- ^ Thomas Wright, The history and topography of Essex, vol. 1, p. 640.
- ^ Sarah Williams (historian), Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Camden Society, 1861), p. 52.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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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