Sir Thomas Bromley was a 16th-century lawyer,judge and politician who established himself in the mid-Tudor period and rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was successively Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor of England. He presided over the trial of Mary,Queen of Scots and died three months after her execution.
Sir George Monoux,born in Walthamstow,Essex,England,was an English merchant in Bristol and London. Six times Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers,he served as Lord Mayor of London and was an important benefactor in Walthamstow. He was a descendant of John Monoux of Stanford,Worcestershire.
Sir Roger Cholmeley was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench from 1552 to 1553. From 1535 to 1545 he was Recorder of London and served in the House of Commons. He is possibly best remembered for his endowment to found a free grammar school,Highgate School,at London.
The City of London was a parliamentary constituency of the Parliament of England until 1707.
Sir Thomas Bromley was an English judge of Shropshire landed gentry origins who came to prominence during the Mid-Tudor period. After occupying important judicial posts in the Welsh Marches,he won the favour of Henry VIII and was a member of Edward VI's regency council. He was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench by Mary I.
Claverley is a village and civil parish in east Shropshire,England. The parish also includes the hamlets of Beobridge,Hopstone,Upper Aston,Ludstone,Heathton and a number of other small settlements.
John Giffard (1534–1613) was a Staffordshire landowner and Member of the English Parliament,notable as a leader of Roman Catholic Recusancy in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
Humphrey Swynnerton was a Staffordshire landowner,a Member of the English Parliament and an Elizabethan recusant.
Sir Robert Constable,of Everingham,Yorkshire,was an English soldier who fought against the Scots for Henry VIII in the 1540s,Member of Parliament and Sheriff. He was the grandfather of the poet,Henry Constable.
Sir Richard Newport was an English landowner and politician of Shropshire origin,prominent regionally during the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods.
Sir Andrew Corbet was an English Protestant politician of the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods:a member of the powerful Council in the Marches of Wales for a quarter of a century. Drawn from the landed gentry of Shropshire and Buckinghamshire,he was twice a member of the Parliament of England for Shropshire.
Richard Corbet was an English landowner and politician who represented Shropshire in the parliaments of 1558 and 1563.
Robert Corbet (1542–1583) was an English landowner,diplomat and politician of the Elizabethan period,a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shropshire,his native county.
All Saints Church is in the village of Claverley,Shropshire,England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Bridgnorth,the archdeaconry of Ludlow,and the diocese of Hereford. Its benefice is united with that of Holy Innocents,Tuck Hill. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Richard Cornwall was an English politician.
Roger Corbet (c.1501–1538) was an English politician and landowner of the Tudor Period. A member of the Shropshire landed gentry,he represented the Borough of Truro in the English Reformation Parliament.
Reginald Corbet was a distinguished lawyer in four reigns across the mid-Tudor period,and prospered throughout,although he seems to have been firmly Protestant in sympathy. He was appointed serjeant-at-law and Justice of the King's Bench,and represented Much Wenlock in the parliament of 1542 and Shrewsbury in those of 1547,October 1553 and 1555. He enjoyed great wealth,partly because his wife was an heiress of Sir Rowland Hill,the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London.
Jerome Corbet was an Elizabethan politician and lawyer of Shropshire landed gentry background. A brother of Sir Andrew Corbet and,like him,a supporter of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement,he became an MP for Bridgnorth and a member of the Council in the Marches of Wales.
The Collegiate Church of St Bartholomew,Tong is a 15th-century church in the village of Tong,Shropshire,England,notable for its architecture and fittings,including its fan vaulting in a side chapel,rare in Shropshire,and its numerous tombs. It was built on the site of a former parish church and was constructed as a collegiate church and chantry on the initiative of Isabel Lingen,who acquired the advowson from Shrewsbury Abbey and additional endowments through royal support. Patronage remained with the lords of the manor of Tong,who resided at nearby Tong Castle,a short distance to the south-west,and the tombs and memorials mostly represent these families,particularly the Vernons of Haddon Hall,who held the lordship for more than a century. Later patrons,mostly of landed gentry origin,added further memorials,including the Stanley Monument which is inscribed with epitaphs said to be specially written by William Shakespeare.
Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford,Suffolk was an English knight,landowner,magistrate,and Member of Parliament.
