Arthur Atye

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Sir Arthur Atye or Atey (died 1604) was an English academic and politician. [1]

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Life

Atye graduated B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford in 1560, and M.A. in 1564. [2] A fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he became Principal of St Alban Hall in 1572. [3] Between 1566 and 1568 he went with John Man on a diplomatic mission in Spain. [4] He was six times a Member of Parliament: for Liverpool in 1572 and 1584; for Fowey in 1589; for Shaftesbury in 1593; for Dunwich in 1597; and for Bere Alston (1604). [1]

He acted as secretary to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. [5] Later he worked for Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and translated political works from Spanish. [6] He was knighted in 1603. [1]

Atye was also one of the trading group in Leicester's circle involved in commerce with Morocco, with Alexander Avenon and Richard Staper. [7] The merchant Benedict Barnham left money to Atye and his wife. [8]

Atye was residing at Kilburn when he died; he owned property in several other locations around London, including Harrow-on-the-Hill where he was buried. His eldest son and heir Robert was still a minor. [9]

Family

Atye married first Anne Quarles, the widow of William Ricthorne, who died in 1583; there were no children of the marriage. He then Judith, daughter of Walter Hungerford of Cadenham. Wiltshire. They had three or four sons, and a daughter. [1] His widow married Sir John Dormer. [10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 historyofparliamentonline.org, Atye, Arthur (d. 1604), of London and Kilburn, Mdx.
  2. ↑ James M. Dutcher; Anne Lake Prescott (2008). Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney. Associated University Presse. p. 339 note 12. ISBN   978-0-87413-001-0.
  3. ↑ Anthony à Wood (1796). The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, Printed for the editor. p. 905.
  4. ↑ Hannah Crummé, The Impact of Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester’s Spanish-Speaking Secretaries, Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies Volume 21 (2011), pp. 1-48. (PDF) Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine at p. 20.
  5. ↑ H. R. Woudhuysen (23 May 1996). Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640. Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN   978-0-19-159102-0.
  6. ↑ Alexandra Gajda (15 March 2012). The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture. Oxford University Press. pp. 80–2. ISBN   978-0-19-969968-1.
  7. ↑ Archer, Ian W. "Staper, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49969.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ Bendall, Sarah. "Barnham, Benedict". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1488.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ↑ John Summerson, The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum, The Volume of the Walpole Society Vol. 40, (1964-1966), pp. iii-ix, 1-41, 43-109, 111-133; at p. 95. Published by: The Walpole Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41829464
  10. ↑ Philip Sidney (2012). The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. Oxford University Press. pp. xxix note 21. ISBN   978-0-19-955822-3.

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