Nicholas Crispe (died 1564)
Nicholas Crispe (by 1530–1564), from Whitstable, Kent, was an English politician.
Family
[edit]Nicholas Crispe was the eldest son of Sir Henry Crispe and Katherine Scott (buried 9 Feb. 1545), the daughter of Sir John Scott of Scot's Hall in Smeeth, Kent.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Crispe was educated at Gray's Inn, (1544).
He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Sandwich in November 1554 and 1558. he was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1559–60 and sat on the bench as a Justice of Peace for the county from 1562 to his death.
Marriages and issue
[edit]Crispe married firstly Frances Cheyne, the daughter of Sir Thomas Cheyne of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, and his first wife, Frideswide Frowyk (died c. 1528), the daughter of Sir Thomas Frowyk, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,[3][4][5][6][7] by whom he had an only daughter, Dorothy Crispe, who at his death became the ward of Sir Francis Knollys.[1]
Crispe married secondly Mary Glemham, the daughter of Christopher Glemham of Glemham, Suffolk.[1]
Crispe's property was inherited by his daughter Dorothy.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d Crispe, Nicholas (by 1530-64), of Whitstable, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ Crispe, Henry (by 1505-75), of Birchington, Isle of Thanet, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ Doe 2004.
- ^ Blaydes 1884, p. 14.
- ^ Lehmberg 2004.
- ^ 'Inquisitions: Henry VII', Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London: Part 1 (1896), pp. 5-27 Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ 'Parishes: Shalbourne', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 228-234 Retrieved 18 August 2013.
References
[edit]- Blaydes, Frederic Augustus (1884). The Visitations of Bedfordshire. Vol. XIX. London: Harleian Society. p. 14. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- Doe, Norman (2004). "Frowyk, Sir Thomas (c.1460–1506)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10206. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Lehmberg, Stanford (2004). "Cheyne, Sir Thomas (c.1485–1558)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5263. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "CRISPE (CRIPSE), Nicholas (by 1530-64), of Whitstable, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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