Thomas Gargrave

Thomas Gargrave

Sir Thomas Gargrave (1495 - 1579) was a Yorkshire knight who served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1565 and 1569. His principal residence was at Nostell Priory, one of many grants of land that Gargrave secured during his lifetime. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=eswHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=%22cotton+gargrave%22&source=web&ots=Vs8Rh1CtKP&sig=6F6kH7p_wS5b8pEX0wwSKexR6kQ&hl=en The Historic Lands of England, Bernard Burke, 1848] ] He was Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the Council of the North. Gargrave was the son of Thomas Gargrave of Wakefield, South Yorkshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Levett of Hooton Levitt and Normanton, West Yorkshire. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=UW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=%22sir+thomas+gargrave%22+nostell+priory&source=web&ots=bUaXAG_veL&sig=m8F5iVKf5nXbbFo9k3a7yW3Ttis&hl=en#PPA158,M1 Sir Thomas Gargrave, Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, Edmund Lodge, 1838] ] Sir Thomas Gargrave married Anne, daughter of William Cotton and Margaret (Culpepper) of Oxenheath, Kent, a by whom he had his only child, Sir Cotton Gargrave, also High Sheriff of Yorkshire. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=zegGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22sir+thomas+gargrave%22+nostell+priory&source=web&ots=gdyF97w91h&sig=ljaTKlBPzQvi3n8OKXkrK3AFhWs&hl=en Gargrave Tomb, Dodsworth's Church Notes, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1904] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=pjMEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22thomas+gargrave%22+levet&source=web&ots=V70bD3r14M&sig=M5RWLXhPDP-T8TluFscv4IvVcIU&hl=en Pedigree of Gargrave, The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564] ] He married secondly Jane, widow of Sir John Wentworth of North Elmsall, West Yorkshire. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=KR8aAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA511&lpg=RA1-PA511&dq=%22william+jarvis%22+weathersfield&source=web&ots=MdzPBmmXCd&sig=KoiQQMDxumhR2PKJMJGRDs6ALoo&hl=en#PPA52,M1The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American, John Wentworth, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1878] ] Sir Thomas Gargrave appears as a character in the William Shakespeare play Henry VI, Part 1.

In "Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire," author Joseph Tilley sums up the Gargrave legacy as follows: "The Gargraves were a knightly house, who came in for extensive grants of Abbey lands in Yorkshire, but who, within a century afterwards, sank into obscurity. The grandfather of the purchaser of One Ash was Speaker of Queen Elizabeth's first Parliament and President of the Council of the North. He was a favourite of Her Majesty and her minister Burghley; he had a grant from Bess, of the Old Park, Wakefield, but he adopted the glorious old Priory of Nostell for a residence. This was the gentleman who conducted poor Mary of Scots from Bolton to Tutbury." [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Tilley/VolumeI/FynneyCottageFlaggHall.html Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Joseph Tilley, GENUKI] ]

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=BlELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=manners+levett&source=web&ots=TMZE3NBjjQ&sig=8G1dEJvO0e_WOF6y--3BHBmdJJU&hl=en#PPA159,M1 Sir Thomas Gargrave, Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, Edmund Lodge, 1838]
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Tilley/VolumeI/FynneyCottageFlaggHall.html Sir Thomas Gargrave, Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Joseph Tilley]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=EyoJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA435&lpg=PA435&dq=%22thomas+gargrave%22+nostell&source=web&ots=vH2sOPTr6g&sig=o4R8Qki-L2ZS9pEj4u9GdUW1kpc&hl=en Sir Thomas Gargrave, Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee, 1889]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/history/wfdchap8.html Sir Thomas Gargrave, History of Wakefield, 1886]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=TjB2zlutgw4C&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=gargrave+burke's&source=web&ots=qSFB7csrni&sig=bxHjOl80xemgXNl1TWPrlo3bh9w&hl=en Vicissitudes of Families, Bernard Burke]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=cs4KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=york+yorkshire+levett&source=web&ots=w75eXGS5Xa&sig=UlDyqqYHrGZjHQ53MrRvG1wLbkU&hl=en The Pedigree of the Family of Gargrave, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, Joseph Jackson Howard, 1868]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=-BgHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=%22thomas+gargrave%22+levett&source=web&ots=1cPsR-xtJt&sig=60JJxXSylESn1olwf6IqSMGrutU&hl=en, Biography of Thomas Gargrave, Chapters in the History of Yorkshire, James Joel Cartwright, 1872]


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