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Hugh Calverley (MP for Cheshire)

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Sir Hugh Calverley (by 1506–58), of Lea, Cheshire, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).

He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Cheshire in 1545.[1]

Calverly was present at the burning of Edinburgh in May 1544,[2] where he was knighted at Leith.[3]

References

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  1. ^ CALVERLEY, Sir Hugh (by 1506-58), of Lea, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
  2. ^ HMC Longleat: Seymour Papers, IV (London, 1968), p. 71.
  3. ^ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 19:1 (London, 1903), no. 531 (2): John Stow Chronicle: The Knights of England (London, 1906), vol. 2, pp. 55–57.
Parliament of England
New constituency Member of Parliament for Cheshire
1545
With: Sir Lawrence Smith
Succeeded by