Thomas Marrow (died 1561) was an English lawyer, landowner, and Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in 1554.[1]

Career

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He was a son of Thomas Marrow (died 1538) of Wolston, Warwickshire, and Rudfyn at Kenilworth,[2] and was said to be a descendant of two mayors of London John Shadworth and William Marrow.[3] Like his father, he was trained and practiced as a lawyer in London. Marrow bought up lands in Warwickshire around Berkswell; Mary I of England granted Marrow the Barony of Barnstaple and the Manor of Birmingham in 1555 or 1557.[4]

A stained glass window at Knowle Parish Church commemorated his grandfather Thomas Marrow, and other windows had the arms of local landowners including Thomas Dabridgecourt and Edward Ferrers.[5]

Marriage and children

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Thomas Marrow married Alice Young. Their ten children included:

References

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  1. ^ Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), p. 573.
  2. ^ Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), p. 573.
  3. ^ John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
  4. ^ Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), pp. 573-4.
  5. ^ John Hannet, The forest of Arden, its towns, villages, and hamlets (London, 1863), p. 232.
  6. ^ Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, An Account of an Elizabethan Family (Cambridge, 2018), p. 120: John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
  7. ^ Jemma Field, 'A Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds: Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display', Erin Griffey, Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam, 2019), p. 143.