Wodehouse is an English surname and barony.
Thomas Knyvett, de jure4th Baron Berners, was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1579.
Margaret Shelton was the sister of Mary Shelton, and was once thought to be a mistress of Henry VIII of England.
Sir Francis Gawdy was an English judge. He was a Justice of the King's Bench, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. His country seat and estates were in Norfolk.
Sir Thomas Gawdy SL was an English justice and Member of Parliament. He was a member of the Norfolk family of Gawdy, of whom many were lawyers during the 16th and 17th centuries. He was Recorder of Norwich for 16 years. His seat was at Gawdy Hall, Harleston, a grand mansion which, in its final state, was demolished in 1939.
Lieutenant Admiral Sir William Woodhouse was an English naval commander and administrator who rose to the rank of Lieutenant of the Admiralty and was head of the Council of the Marine later called the Navy Board. He also served as a Member of Parliament of the Parliament of England from 1545 to 1564. He was prominent during an important time of the Navy Royal's development in the later half of the Tudor period.
Augustine Steward, of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Robert Rugge, of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich in 1545 and mayor of the city in 1545-46 and 1550-51.
Thomas Gawdy, of Shotesham and Redenhall, Norfolk, was Serjeant-at-law, an English barrister, Recorder, and member of parliament.
Thomas Sotherton, of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Henry Woodhouse, of Hickling and Waxham, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Bassingbourne Gawdy, of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English landowner, magistrate and Member of Parliament (MP).
SirBassingbourne Gawdy, of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English lawyer and judge, knight, and Member of Parliament.
Sir Henry Parker, of Morley Hall, Hingham, Norfolk and Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.
Roger Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Nicholas Sotherton, of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English merchant and politician.
Sir Robert Wood of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Sir Thomas Le Strange (1494–1545) of Hunstanton, Norfolk, born in 1494, son of Robert le Strange (d. 1511), sixth in descent from Hamo le Strange, brother of John le Strange, 6th Baron of Knockyn, was Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII, and attended the King when he went to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520; he was knighted by Henry at Whitehall in 1529, and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1532.
Francis Mountford, (1474/76–1536), of the Inner Temple, London and Feltwell, Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament.
Sir Robert Radcliffe or Radclyffe was an English landowner.
