Dalston, John (1556 - 1633)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 12
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Venues - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 8
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Born / Died

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

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Offspring

From Tyrrell, Anna ( - 1579/80)

  1. Female offspring: Dalston, Dorothy (b. 1577)
  2. Female offspring: Dalston, Catherine (1580 - 1605)

From Warcop, Frances ( - )

  1. Male offspring: Dalston, George (d. 1657)
  2. Female offspring: Dalston, Elizabeth (n.d.)
  3. Male offspring: Dalston, Robert (1595 - 1623)

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 n.d. Held office from this date
Steward, Barony of Burgh, Cumberland by 1582 n.d. 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 ca. 1633 For life
MP, Cumberland 1589 n.d.
Sheriff, Cumberland 1594-11-21 1595-11-26
JP, Westmorland 1601 n.d. Held office from this date
Deputy Warden, Marches towards Scotland, West March 1602/3-1 n.d.
Sheriff, Cumberland 1604-11-5 by 1605/6-02-2

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Dalston Hall, Cumberland
    (Performance Venue)
    Patrimony
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: ca. 1633

Lands

  • Cumberland: Brundholme Manor
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: before 1608
    Patrimony; sold
  • Cumberland: Caldbeck Manor
    Acquired: 1580-12-10
    Divested: before 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: ca. 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: ca. 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

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1618-1618 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 Venue 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. R.S. Ferguson, ed. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Tract Series 2. 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. Publications of the Harleian Society 102. London: [Printed for the Society], 1872.
Fleming, Daniel. Description of the County of Westmoreland, by Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal, A. D. 1671. G.F. Duckett, ed. 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. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes 9. London: HMSO, 1898.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)