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Sir Clement Higham, Knt., of Barrow Hall, Suffolk, (d. 9 March 1571), was a Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons (1554 - 1555), Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and a Privy Councillor to Queen Mary Tudor. He was also a barrister-at-law and a Reader and Governor of Lincoln's Inn, London Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
The term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a countrys lower house of parliament or congress (ie: the House of Commons or House of Representatives). ...
The Exchequer of Pleas or Exchequer was one of the three common-law courts of Medieval and Early Modern England. ...
This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ...
Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon This article is about Mary Tudor, queen consort of France. ...
A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in England, Wales, Ireland, and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in most Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ...
Part of Lincolns Inn drawn by Thomas Shepherd c. ...
He married, (after 1528), Anne (d.1506-1590), daughter of George Waldegrave (1483-1528), Knt., of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, by his wife Anne (d.1572), daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Lord of the Manors of Thurston, and Hawstead, Suffolk, (1455-1536). (See also Waldegrave family). Sir Clement Higham was buried in the parish church at Barrow, Suffolk,where there is an Altar tomb in the chancel with effigy brasses, arms, and long eulogistic inscription. Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
Sir Robert Drury, (died March 2, 1536), knight, (knighted by the King, after the battle of Blackheath, June 17, 1497) succeeded as Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, and with him began for the family a long connection with the courts of the Tudor sovereigns, and a succession of capable...
In England, Lord of the Manor is a feudal title. ...
Thurston may refer to: Thurston County, Washington Thurston, Ohio Thurston, New York Thurston, Nebraska Thurston, Moore William Thurston William Thurston Howard Thurston, an American magician. ...
Waldgrave, the name of an English family, taken from its early residence, Walgrave in Northamptonshire. ...
Refer: The Visitation of Suffolk 1561, by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms. Transcribed and edited by Joan Corder, F.S.A., London, 1984 volume 2, pps: 396-7. Clarenceux King of Arms is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. ...
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