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Kingston, Anthony (1508 - 1556)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1508
Death Date: 1556-04-14 (Died in custody while travelling to London to face charges of conspiracy)

Notes

Imprisoned in the Tower 10--24 Dec. 1555

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Harpur , Dorothy ( - 1535)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1524-10-18
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Marriage was likely arranged by Anthony's father in order to forge connections with the Staffords, whom Dorothy's father, Robert, had served as a retainer. Anthony began petitioning for a divorce in 1533 [ODNB]
  2. Gainsford, Mary ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1537
    Union ended: 1552
    Note: Estranged by this year
  3. Not identified, ( - )
    Type: other
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1540-05-02
    Vacated: 1556-04-14

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1528 -8 -6
Steward, Gloucestershire 1531 1556 -04 -14 Held office until death
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1532/3 -2 -4
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1533
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1533 -11 -17 1534 -11 -13
JP, Gloucestershire 1537
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1539
JP, Gloucestershire 1539 1540
MP, Gloucestershire 1539
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Gloucestershire 1540
Steward, Duchy of Lancaster 1540/1 -2 -5 1556 -04 -14 Held office until death
Chief Steward, Gloucestershire 1541 -6 -28 1556 -04 -14 Held office until death
Keeper, Worcestershire 1541 -6 -28
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1541 -6 -28
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1542
JP, Gloucestershire 1542 1545
MP, Gloucestershire 1542 Possibly held this office in this year
MP, Gloucestershire 1545
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1545/6
Commissioner of Custos Rotulorum, Gloucestershire 1546
Chief Steward, Gloucestershire 1547 1549
JP, Gloucestershire 1547
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1547
MP, Gloucestershire 1547
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1550 -11 -11 1551 -11 -10
Council Member, Marches of Wales 1551
MP, Gloucestershire 1553 -3
JP, Gloucestershire 1553/4 1556 Held office until death
Knight Marshall, England 1555
MP, Gloucestershire 1555

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Cadeleigh Castle, Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1537
    Divested: 1552
    Date of 2nd marriage; estranged from wife by 1552
  • Painswick Lodge, Gloucestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1548
    Divested: 1556-04
    Patrimony

Lands

  • Devon: Cadeleigh & Honiton Manors
    Acquired: 1537
    Acquired via 2nd wife
  • Gloucestershire: Flaxley Abbey & Lands
    Acquired: 1536/7-03-21
    Granted
  • Gloucestershire: Haresfield Manor
    Acquired: 1540
    Divested: 1556-04-14
    Patrimony; owned in part; sold park of the manor (later known as Haresfield Park) in 1552
  • Gloucestershire: Leonard Stanley Priory & Manor
    Acquired: 1544-10-22
    Granted
  • Gloucestershire: Miserden Manor
    Acquired: 1546-03-04
    Granted
  • Gloucestershire: Quenington Manor
    Acquired: 1545-09-25
    Purchased
  • Gloucestershire: Wishanger Manor
    Acquired: 1540
    Divested: 1552
    Leased

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Sir Anthony Kingston's Abbot of Misrule
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Sir Anthony Kingston's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Sir Anthony Kingston's Players
Performance - Boothall, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Sir Anthony Kingston's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Anthony Kingston's Players Kingston, Anthony (1508 - 1556) Players 1
Sir Anthony Kingston's Players Kingston, Anthony (1508 - 1556) Players 1
Sir Anthony Kingston's Players Kingston, Anthony (1508 - 1556) Players 1
Sir Anthony Kingston's Abbot of Misrule Kingston, Anthony (1508 - 1556) Other 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Cadeleigh Castle Devon Private Residence
Painswick Lodge Gloucestershire 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
  • The Dictionary of National Biography. 1882–1901 (66 vols); 1908–9 (28 vols). 2 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1975
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.