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Dalston, John (1556 - 1633)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1556
Death Date: 1633-12-02 (burial date)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Tyrrell, Anna ( - 1579/80)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1589
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Warcop, Frances ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1603 (possibly knighted in this year; knighted before 5 Nov. 1604)
    Vacated: 1621

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Cumberland 1573 Held office from this date
Steward, Barony of Burgh, Cumberland 1582 A border (not a peerage) barony by Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, the possession of the Earl of Arundel
Sheriff, Cumberland 1583 -11 -25 1584 -11 -18
Sheriff, Cumberland 1586 -11 -14 1587 -09 -29
Capt, Cumberland 1589 -11 -13 1633 For life
MP, Cumberland 1589
Sheriff, Cumberland 1594 -11 -21 1595 -11 -26
JP, Westmorland 1601 Held office from this date
Deputy Warden, Marches towards Scotland, West March 1602/3 -1
Sheriff, Cumberland 1604 -11 -5 1605/6 -02 -2

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cumberland: Brundholme Manor
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1608
    Patrimony; sold
  • Cumberland: Caldbeck Manor
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1581
    Patrimony; sold
  • Cumberland: Dockray & Moorhouse Manors
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1620
    Patrimony; given to daughter Elizabeth at her marriage
  • Cumberland: Ireby Manor
    Acquired: 1589
    Purchased a quarter of the manor
  • Cumberland: Kirkbride, Little Dalston, Oulton & Uldale Manors
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1633
    Patrimony
  • Cumberland: Little Bampton & Kirkbampton
    Acquired: 1586
    Divested: 1633
    Purchased; sold
  • Essex: Birdbrook Manor
    Acquired: 1573
    Divested: 1589
    Acquired via 1st wife; given to daughter Dorothy at her marriage
  • Kent: Beckenham Manor
    Acquired: 1573
    Divested: 1633
    Acquired half of the manor via 1st wife
  • Westmorland: Smardale Hall & Manor
    Acquired: 1590
    Divested: 1633
    Acquired via 2nd marriage
  • Westmorland: Temple Sowerby
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1633
    Patrimony
  • Yorkshire: North Riding: Bowes
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: 1594
    Patrimony; sold

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Moot Hall, Carlisle, Cumberland Sir John Dalston's Musicians

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Dalston's Musicians Dalston, John (1556 - 1633) Musicians 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Dalston Hall Cumberland Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Bindoff, S.T. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982
  • Denton, John. An Accompt of the Most Considerable Estates and Families in the County of Cumberland, from the Conquest unto the Beginning of the Reign of K[ing] James [the First]. Written ca. 1610. Kendal: T. Wilson, 1887
  • Fetherston, John, ed. The Visitation of the County of Cumberland in the Year 1615 taken by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms. London: [Printed for the Society], 1872
  • Fleming, Daniel. Description of the County of Westmoreland, by Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal, A. D. 1671. London and Kendal: Bernard Quaritch & T. Wilson, 1882
  • Hasler, P.W. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1558–1603. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1981
  • Haswell, Francis. 'The Family of Dalston.'. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society ns 10 (1910): 201--70.
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.