Andrew Noel

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Andrew Noel or Nowell (died 1607) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. [1]

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Career

He was a second son of Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke and Elizabeth Hopton.

His father left his estates to the younger Andrew, rather than his eldest son, John Noel. [2]

Noel was Member of Parliament for Rutland. He was Sheriff of Rutland in 1600. [3]

Andrew Noel and his wife attended the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots at Peterborough Cathedral in 1587. He carried the banner of Scotland. [4]

His brother Henry Noel was a poet, a patron of John Dowland, and said to be a gentleman pensioner to the queen. He died on 28 February 1597 after playing a ball game called baloune at court with an Italian opponent. [5]

He was involved in litigation with his brother-in-law John Harington of Exton (died 1613).

He died in 1603.

Marriages and children

Noel married Mabel Harington (died 1603), a daughter of James Harington of Exton and Lucy Sidney. Their children included:

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References

  1. 'NOEL (NOWELL), Andrew (c.1552-1607), of Dalby, History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
  2. 'NOEL (NOWELL), Andrew (c.1552-1607), of Dalby, History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
  3. J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  4. The Funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Collection of Curious Tracts (1890), pp. 4, 12, 63.
  5. Tessa Murray, Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher (Woodbridge, 2014), p.41: P. Austin Nuttall,The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller, vol. 2 (London, 1840), pp. 243-4.
  6. Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), p. 2.
  7. Maurice Lee, Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603–1624 (Rutgers UP, 1972), p. 195.