Robert Tyrwhitt MP LL JP
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Robert Tyrwhitt MP LL JP (abt. 1516 - 1581)

Sir Robert Tyrwhitt MP LL JP
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  • (uncle) Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, MP who married the aunt of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt's (d. 1581) wife's, and also shared her name.[1]

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Biography

Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, co. Lincs. (d. 1581), was an English landowner, administrator and politician whose adherence to Roman Catholicism led to imprisonment.[1]

Born about 1516, he was the eldest son of:

  • Sir William Tyrwhitt of Scotter (d. 1541), High Sheriff of Lincolnshire,[2]
  • and Isabel, dau. of William Girlington of Normanby; wid. of Christopher Kelke.[2]

Among his brothers were two who also became MPs:

  1. Marmaduke Tyrwhitt
  2. and Tristram Tyrwhitt.

Apart from an initial career at the court of Henry VIII under the tutelage of his uncle, and three spells as an MP at Westminster, he spent his adult life managing his lands and taking part in the affairs of his county.

Marriage

By 1531 he married Elizabeth Oxenbridge, d. & h. of:

  • Sir Thomas Oxenbridge (d. 1540), of Etchingham in co. Sussex,[1]
  • and Elizabeth Puttenham (d. 1529), dau. of Sir George Puttenham and aunt of writer George Puttenham.

She was the niece of the Elizabeth Oxenbridge who married her husband's uncle.

children

They had 22 children including, 9 sons and 13 daughters:[1]

m. Elizabeth Frescheville.
  • Marmaduke (d. 1588)
m. Elizabeth, dau. of Martin Aune of Frickley; wid. of Francis Gascoigne of Gawthorpe .[2]
m. Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave.[2]
m. Sir Philip Constable of Everingham.[1]
m. William FitzWilliam of Mablethorpe.[1]
m. Thomas Dalton of Sutton.[3]

Property

His marriage to an heiress before 1531 brought him valuable estates and in 1548, his father having died in 1541, he inherited the lands of his grandfather Sir Robert. This made him a substantial landowner, and public recognition followed.[1]

Occupation

He served as a justice of the peace for Lindsey from 1547, possibly until 1579, and was knighted by 1553. In the Parliaments of March 1553, April 1554 and that of 1558, he represented Lincolnshire. In May 1559 he was joint Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and in the 1559-60 year was a High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.[1]

With the re-imposition of Anglicanism under Queen Elizabeth I, his Roman Catholicism became a hindrance. In his later years, both he and his children were pursued by the authorities on account of their recusancy.

Death

In 1580 he was in the Fleet Prison in London, being allowed the company of his wife and access to the gardens. When he died on 16 November 1581, two of his sons were let out of prison to attend his funeral.[1]

He was buried at Bigby, co. Lincs., in a tomb of white alabaster. His will, made five days before his death, left generous legacies to his wife, children, and grandchildren, and his executors included two of his sons-in-law.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 T.M. Hoffmann ”Tyrwhitt, Sir Robert II (c.1510-81), of Kettleby, Lincs.” in “The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558” editor S.T. Bindoff, 1982 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/tyrwhitt-sir-robert-ii-1510-81
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lincolnshire pedigrees https://archive.org/stream/lincolnshirepedi5255madd#page/1020/
  3. ↑ Sir William Dugdale, “Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions”, 1901, Parts 5-7, p 329

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Vandervest-2 April A. Vandervest
How was his father 9 when he was born? And his wife's first son was born when she was 11? I think there are some errors in connections here or in dates. It's really not possible for both of those things to be true. The wife would've had to be mature by 10 for that to happen, and the father would've had to marry a woman capable of bearing a child and who would've been willing to have relations with a small child.
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