Bassingbourne Gawdy (died 1606)
Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy (1560–1606), of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English politician.[1]
He was the son of Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy of West Harling, Norfolk and trained for the law at the Inner Temple. He succeeded his father in 1590 (inheriting his lands at West Harling and nearby Bardwell Hall, Suffolk) and was knighted in 1597.
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 and Thetford in 1593 and 1604.
He married twice. His first wife was Anne, the daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow's Hall, Debenham, Suffolk and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Sir Clement Higham, with whom he had three sons. He married secondly to Dorothy, the daughter of Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, Suffolk, who bore him a further two sons and three daughters. He was succeeded by his son Framlingham Gawdy.[2]
Anne Gawdy
Anne Gawdy (1593-1632), the daughter of Bassingbourne Gawdy and Dorothy Bacon, was noted for her beauty and accomplishments, and was said to have been admired by Prince Charles (1600-1649). In January 1619 the king came to Culford, a house of her grandparents, to see her.[3][4]
John Chamberlain wrote that the following verse and anagram on her name were said to have been written by the Prince:
- Heaven's wonder late, but now Earth's glorious ray,
- With wonder shines; that's gone, this new and gaye [Anne Gawdye]
- Still gazed on; in this is more than Heaven's light:
- Day obscur'd that; this makes the day more bright.[5]
"Nann Gawdy" married William Stanhope of Linby in 1624.[6] Their son was the MP, William Stanhope (1626–1703).[7]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), pp. 525-6.
- ^ H. L. Meakin, The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2013), pp. 32-3, has the visit at Redgrave.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 526, from BL MS 4173.
- ^ Richard Griffin Braybrooke, The private correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis (London, 1842), pp. 95, 101.
- ^ 'Stanhope, Sir William (1626-1703), of Shelford, Notts', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983
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