Thomas Ragland

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Sir Thomas Ragland (fl.1563), of Carnllwyd, Glamorganshire, Wales and Roughton Holme, Norfolk and Walworth, Surrey, England, was a politician.

Family

Ragland was the eldest son of Sir John Ragland of Carnllwyd, who had died by 1550, when Thomas Ragland succeeded him. John Ragland had been knighted after the 1513 Battle of Guinegate by Henry VIII of England. He was also present at The Field of the Cloth of Gold.

By 1551, he had married Ann Woodhouse, daughter of Sir Roger Woodhouse of Kimberley, Norfolk. She was the widow of Christopher Coningsby of Wallington, Norfolk and had daughters by him, whose inheritance she was careful to protecy from Sir Thomas Ragland in her 1562 will. They had more than one child, but nothing more is recorded of them.

Career

Ragland was Justice of the Peace of Norfolk from 1550.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Malmesbury in 1563.

Later life

Records show that in August 1578 he was in the Gatehouse Prison. Whether he died in prison, and when he died, are unknown.