Howard, Thomas (1520 - 1581/2)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1520

Death Date: 1582-01-28

Notes

Under father's attainder from 27 Jan. 1546/7 until restored in blood 1 May 1553

Parents

Mother: Stafford, Elizabeth (1497 - 1558)

Father: Howard, Thomas (1473 - 1554)

Marriages/Other Unions

Marney, Elizabeth (1517 - )
Type: marriage
Union began: 1542
Union ended: n.d.
Note: between 1526 and 1542
Lyte, Gertrude ( - )
Type: marriage
Union began: 1565
Union ended: n.d.
Burton, Mabel ( - )
Type: marriage
Union began: 1576-6-7
Union ended: 1582-1
Type: marriage
Union began: n.d.
Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Male

Howard, Henry (1516 - 1546/7)

Female

Howard, Mary (1519 - 1557)
Howard, Katherine ( - 1529/30)

Offspring

From Marney, Elizabeth (1517 - )
Male offspring: Howard, Henry (1542 - 1590/1)
From Marney, Elizabeth (1517 - )
Male offspring: Howard, Thomas ( - 1610/11)
From Lyte, Gertrude ( - )
Male offspring: Lyte, Charles ( - )
From Burton, Mabel ( - )
Female offspring: Howard, Frances (1576 - 1639)

Titles

1st Viscount Howard of Bindon
Assumed: 1558/9-01-13
Vacated: 1581/2-01-28
Knight
Assumed: 1547-09-25
Vacated: 1581/2-01-28

Details of Offices

	Began	Ended
JP, Dorset	1561/2
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall	1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon	1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Dorset	1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset	1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Wiltshire	1563/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Southampton	1563/4
Commissioner of Custos Rotulorum, Dorset	1564
JP, Dorset	1564
Commissioner of Musters, Dorset	1569
Commissioner of Musters, Dorset	1572	1573

Details of Properties

Residence

Bindon, Dorset

Lands

Dorset: Cattistock & Winterborne Abbas Manors
Acquired: 1560-05-17
These and other manors granted; additional manors granted 13 July 1573

Event Naming Patron

Event Type	Date	Location	Troupe
Performance	1577 - 1578	Guildhall, Faversham, Kent	Lord Howard's Players
Performance	1577 - 1578	Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent	Lord Howard's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name	Patron	Troupe Type	# of events
Lord Howard's Players	Howard, Thomas (1520 - 1582)	Players	1
Lord Howard's Players	Howard, Thomas (1520 - 1582)	Players	1

Bibliographic Sources

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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.