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Newport, Thomas (1489 - 1549)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1489
Death Date: 1549

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Male

  • Newport, John ( - )
  • Newport, William ( - )
  • Newport, Richard ( - )

Female

  • Newport, Jane ( - )
  • Newport, Eleanor ( - )

Titles

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Shropshire 1525/6
JP, Shropshire 1528/9
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Shropshire 1530
JP, Shropshire 1530/1 1532/3
JP, Shropshire 1536
JP, Shropshire 1538 1539
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1538/9
Commissioner of Musters, Shropshire 1539
JP, Shropshire 1539/40
JP, Worcestershire 1539/40
JP, Staffordshire 1539/40
JP, Herefordshire 1539/40
JP, Gloucestershire 1539/40
JP, Berkshire 1539/40
JP, Oxfordshire 1539/40
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1540/1
Commissioner of Musters, Shropshire 1542
Sheriff, Shropshire 1542 -11 -22 1543 -11 -23
JP, Shropshire 1547
Sheriff, Shropshire 1549 -11 -12 1550 -11 -11

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Kent
  • Shropshire
  • Warwickshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Mr Rogers' Tavern, Ludlow, Shropshire Mr Newport's Minstrel/s
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Mr Thomas Newport's Entertainer/s
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Mr Thomas Newport's Entertainer/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Thomas Newport's Entertainer/s Newport, Thomas (1489 - 1549) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Mr Thomas Newport's Entertainer/s Newport, Thomas (1489 - 1549) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Mr Newport's Minstrel/s Newport, Thomas (1489 - 1549) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
High Ercall Hall Shropshire 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
  • Bridgeman, George Thomas Orlando. 'The Princes of Upper Powys'. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 Collectanea Archaeologica: Communications made to the British Archaeological Association 1: 182-231.
  • Grazebrook, George, and John Paul Rylands, eds. The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623.... With additions from the pedigrees of Shropshire gentry taken by the heralds in the years 1569 and 1584, and other sources. 2 vols. London: Harleian Society, 1889
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Vaughan, H.F.J.. 'Lord Herbert of Chirbury's MSS'. Shrewsbury and Oswestry: Adnitt and Naunton; Woodall and Venables, 1880 Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol. 3: 353-77.