Bassingbourne Gawdy (died 1606)
Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy (19 May 1560 – 1606), of West Harling, Norfolk,[1] was an English lawyer and judge, knight, and Member of Parliament.[2][3][4]
Biography
He was the son of Bassingbourne Gawdy of West Harling, Norfolk and Anne (died 1587), daughter of John Wootton of North Tuddenham in Norfolk, and relict, successively, of Thomas Woodhouse of Hickling, Norfolk (son of Sir William Woodhouse),[5] and of Henry Reppes of Mendham, Suffolk.[6] He was a brother of Phillip Gawdy (1562–1617).[7]
Having trained for the law at the Inner Temple,[2] he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk by 1591 and High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1593–94 and 1601–02. He also served as a deputy lieutenant for Norfolk in 1605. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norfolk in 1601. Later Bassingbourne became the MP of Thetford from 1593 and 1604.
Bassingbourne succeeded his father in 1590 (inheriting his lands at West Harling and nearby Bardwell Hall, Suffolk) and was knighted in 1597.
Bassingbourne died on 22 May 1606.
Family
He first married Anne (buried 9 June 1594 at West Harling[8]) (daughter of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow’s Hall, Debenham in Suffolk and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Sir Clement Higham),[9] and had three sons by her.[2] He was succeeded by his eldest son. By his first wife Anne Framlingham, Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy had two sons:
- Framlingham Gawdy[10] (1589–1654), the father of Sir William Gawdy, the first of the Gawdy baronets of West Harling
- Sir Charles Gawdy,[10] the father of Sir Charles Gawdy, the first of the Gawdy baronets of Crow's Hall
His second wife was Dorothy (daughter of Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, Suffolk), who bore him a further two sons and three daughters:[11]
- Bassingbourne Gawdy[10]
- Bacon Gawdy[10]
- Dorothy Gawdy, the wife of Sir Henry Felton of Playford in Sussex, knight and baronet,[10] and the mother of Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet
- Anne Gawdy,[10] a woman admired for her beauty and accomplishments.[12] She married William Stanhope, M.P., of Linby, Nottinghamshire,[13] and was mother of Sir William Stanhope of Shelford, Nottinghamshire[14]
- Frances Gawdy[10]
References
- ^ W. Rye (ed.), Report on the Manuscripts of the Family of Gawdy, formerly of Norfolk, Historical Manuscripts Commission (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1885), at pp. 1-107 (Internet Archive).
- ^ a b c J.H., 'Gawdy, Bassingbourne II (1560-1606), of West Harling, Norf.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament online.
- ^ C. Kyle, 'Gawdy, Sir Bassingbourne (1560-1606), of Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf.', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (from Cambridge University Press 2010), History of Parliament Online.
- ^ J. Rowe, 'Gawdy family (per. c. 1500–1723)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004, updated version 2008), subscription required for internet access.
- ^ 'Woodhouse', in W. Rye (ed.), The Visitacion of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cook: with many other descents (etc.), Harleian Society XXXII (London 1891), pp. 320-23, at p. 321 (Internet Archive).
- ^ 'Hundred of Giltcross, West-Herling', in F. Blomefield, ed. C. Parkin, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Volume I (William Miller, London 1805), pp. 297-312, at pp. 305-06; 'St Cleere's Manor, North Tudenham', Volume X (William Miller, London 1809), pp. 263-64 (Google).
- ^ J.H., 'Gawdy, Philip (1562-1617), of West Harling, Norf. and London.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online.
- ^ Norfolk Record Office, PD 27/1.
Mrs Anne Gawdye was buried on 9 June 1594 at West Harling – 1594 [...] Mrs Anne Gawdye was buried ix°. Junij.
- ^ 'Heigham of Barrow', in J. Gage, The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred (Samuel Bentley, London/John Deck, Bury St Edmunds 1838), pp. 8-16 and Plan (Google).
- ^ a b c d e f g 'Gawdy', in W. Rye (ed.), The Visitacion of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cook: with many other descents (etc.), Harleian Society XXXII (London 1891), pp. 125-127, at p. 126 (Internet Archive).
- ^ J. Burke and J.B. Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, 2nd edition (Scott, Webster and Geary, London 1841), pp. 215-16 (Google).
- ^ 'The king and prince at Culford, 1618-19', in J. Nichols, The Progresses, Processions and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, 3 vols (J.B. Nichols, London 1828), III, at pp. 525-6 (Google).
- ^ R.G. Braybrooke, The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis (London, 1842), p. 95, note, and p. 101, note (Google).
- ^ E.R. Edwards, 'Stanhope, Sir William (1626-1703), of Shelford, Notts.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1983), History of Parliament Online.
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