Norton Knatchbull (MP for Hythe)
Norton Knatchbull | |
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Portrait of Sir Norton Knatchbull Bt., Gilbert Jackson | |
| Member of Parliament for Hythe | |
| In office 1609–1611 | |
| Preceded by | Sir John Smith |
| Succeeded by | Sir Richard Smythe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Before 11 September 1569 |
| Died | After 3 December 1636 (aged 67) |
| Resting place | church of St. John the Baptist, Mersham 51°07′01″N 0°55′53″E / 51.1169°N 0.931405°E |
| Spouses | Anne Wentworth
(m. 1591; died 1591)Bridget Astley
(m. 1592; died 1625)Mary Aldersey (m. 1627) |
| Parents |
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| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Sir Norton Knatchbull (baptised 11 September 1569 – after 3 December 1636), of Mersham Hatch, Kent, was an English landowner and politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of England (MP) for the seat of Hythe in 1609. He was knighted in 1604.[1][2]
Early life
Knatchbull was the 3rd son of Richard Knatchbull (d. 1582) of Mersham Hatch, and Susan Greene, daughter of Thomas Greene of Bobbing, Kent. He was baptised on 11 September 1569.[1]
He was a student at St John's College, Cambridge in 1586 and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1588.[1]
Marriages
Knatchbull married three times, but had no children by any of his wives.[1] He married:
- first: in October 1591, Anne Wentworth (baptised 16 September 1565 – October 1591),[3] daughter of Paul Wentworth (d. 1593) of Burnham, Buckinghamshire and Helen Agmondesham.[1][4] She died in the same month as the wedding and was buried on 19 October 1591 at Burnham.[3]
- On a small plate of brass over her tomb, are the following lines:[5]
Knatchbulli conjux, Wenthworthi septima proles, Tempora post vitae bis duodena suae, Anne immaturo commisit membra sepulchro Et quo nupta fuit mense, sepulto fuit.
- second: by August 1592, Bridget Astley (d. 4 November 1625), daughter of John Astley (d. 1596) of Maidstone, Kent, Master of the Jewel House, from 1558 to 1596.[1] Bridget's sister, Eleanor, married her husband's brother, Thomas.[6]
- third: after 9 February 1627, Mary Aldersey, daughter and coheir of John Aldersey (d. 1614), haberdasher, of London, widow of Thomas Westrowe, alderman and grocer of Cornhill, London.[1][7]
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Bridget Astley, Lady Knatchbull, Circle of Robert Peake the Elder
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Portrait of Sir Norton Knatchbull Bt. (1569-1636), and his wife Mary Westrow, née Aldersey (d. 1674), 1629, Gilbert Jackson
Career
He was a justice of the peace (JP) for Kent, serving from 1600 to about 1627. He was knighted at Whitehall on 18 April 1604,[2][8] and licensed in the following August to travel abroad for a year. He served as Sheriff of Kent from 1606 to 1607.[1]
He was elected MP for the seat of Hythe on 4 October 1609, after a by-election, but did not stand for re-election.[1]
Death
He died shortly after 3 December, and was buried on 9 December 1636 at the church of St. John the Baptist, Mersham.[1] A monument, which included a life-sized effigy in marble, was erected by his nephew and heir, Norton,[6] at the north wall of the chancel.[1] His widow subsequently married Sir Edward Scott of Scot's Hall, Kent, in 1639.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Lefevre & Thrush 2010.
- ^ a b Shaw & Burtchaell 1906, p. 131.
- ^ a b Wentworth 1878, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Fuidge 1981.
- ^ Wentworth 1878, p. 29.
- ^ a b Hovenden 1898, p. 143.
- ^ Scott 1876, p. 212.
- ^ Metcalfe 1885, p. 152.
References
- Fuidge, N. M. (1981). "Wentworth, Paul (1534-94), of Burnham, Bucks.". In Hasler, P. W. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 – via History of Parliament Online.
- Lefevre, Peter; Thrush, Andrew (2010). "Knatchbull, Sir Norton (1569-1636), of Mersham Hatch, Kent". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1604-1629 – via History of Parliament Online.
- Metcalfe, Walter C. (1885). A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor, Made between the Fourth Year of King Henry VI and the Restoration of King Charles II and Knights Made in Ireland, between the Years 1566 and 1698, Together with an Index of Names. London: Mitchell and Hughes. p. 152. OCLC 5319383.
- Philipot, John; Camden, William (1898). Hovenden, Robert (ed.). The Visitation of Kent: taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol. 42. London: Mitchell and Hughes. p. 143. OCLC 1102110159.
- Scott, James Renat (1876). Memorials of the Family of Scott, of Scot's-Hall, In the County of Kent. With an Appendix of Illustrative Documents. London: J. R. Scott, Clevelands, Walthamstow, E. OCLC 1048814514.
- Shaw, W.A.; Burtchaell, B. D. (1906). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors, Incorporating a Complete List of Knights Bachelors Dubbed in Ireland. Vol. 2. Incorporating a complete list of Knights Bachelors dubbed in Ireland, compiled by G. D. Burtchaell. London: Printed and published for the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, Sherratt and Hughes.
- Wentworth, John (1878). The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 28–29.
External links
- Media related to Norton Knatchbull (MP for Hythe) at Wikimedia Commons