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'''Sir''' '''Bassingbourne Gawdy''' ( |
'''Sir''' '''Bassingbourne Gawdy''' (19 May 1560<ref>{{Cite book|last=Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts|url=https://archive.org/details/reportonmanuscri00greauoft/page/4/mode/2up|title=Report on the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy, formerly of Norfolk ..|last2=Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. The mss. of J.M. Heathcote|last3=Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Report on the mss. of the Marquess of Lothian|last4=Rye|first4=Walter|date=1885|publisher=London, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode|others=Robarts - University of Toronto|pages=4}}</ref> – 1606), of [[West Harling]], Norfolk, was an English politician and knight.<ref name=":1">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), [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/gawdy-bassingbourne-ii-1560-1606 History of Parliament online].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=GAWDY, Sir Bassingbourne (1560-1606), of Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf. {{!}} History of Parliament Online|url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/gawdy-sir-bassingbourne-1560-1606|access-date=2021-12-07|website=www.histparl.ac.uk}}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy (19 May 1560[1] – 1606), of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English politician and knight.[2][3]
Biography
He was the son of Bassingbourne Gawdy of West Harling, Norfolk and Anne (d.1587), the daughter of John Wootton of Tuddenham in Norfolk. He 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.[4]
Family
He married 1) Anne (d.1594), daughter of Sir Charles Framlingham of Crow’s Hall, Debenham in Suffolk, and had three sons by her;[2] and 2) 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.[5] One of his daughters was Anne Gawdy, a woman admired for her beauty and accomplishments.[4]
He was a brother of Phillip Gawdy (1562–1617).[6]
References
- ^ Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts; Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. The mss. of J.M. Heathcote; Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Report on the mss. of the Marquess of Lothian; Rye, Walter (1885). Report on the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy, formerly of Norfolk . Robarts - University of Toronto. London, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "GAWDY, Sir Bassingbourne (1560-1606), of Bardwell Hall, West Harling, Norf. | History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ a b Gawdy, Phillip (1906). 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. One of his daughters was Anne Gawdy, a woman admired for her beauty and accomplishments. He had two other sons Phillip Gawdy and Bassingbourne Gawdy II. Phillip was born in. University of California.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "GAWDY, Philip (1562-1617), of West Harling, Norf. and London. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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