Hugh Calverley (MP for Cheshire)

Sir Hugh Calverley (by 1506–58), of Lea, Cheshire, was an English courtier, soldier, and Member of Parliament (MP).

He was a son of George Calverley of Lea and Elizabeth, daughter Piers or Peter Dutton of Dutton and Hatton.[1]

Calverley was gentleman of the household of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.[2] His brother John was a valet to Mary I of England, and served at her wedding in Winchester.[3]

Hugh Calverley was a Member of the Parliament of England for Cheshire in 1545.[4]

Calverly was present at the burning of Edinburgh in May 1544,[5] where he was knighted at Leith.[6] A "Cavarley" serving at the battle of Pinkie in 1547 was injured by a pike thrust.[7]

He married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Tattenhall of Bulkeley, Cheshire.

References

  1. ^ CALVERLEY, Sir Hugh (by 1506-58), of Lea, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
  2. ^ John Gough Nichols, "Memoir of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset", Camden Miscellany, 3 (London, 1855), p. lxxi.
  3. ^ John Gough Nichols, "Autobiography of Edward Underhill", Narratives of the days of the Reformation (London: Camden Society, 1859), p. 169: John Burke, The Patrician, 4 (London, 1847), p. 6.
  4. ^ CALVERLEY, Sir Hugh (by 1506-58), of Lea, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
  5. ^ HMC Longleat: Seymour Papers, IV (London, 1968), p. 71.
  6. ^ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 19:1 (London, 1903), no. 531 (2): John Stow Chronicle: The Knights of England (London, 1906), vol. 2, pp. 55–57.
  7. ^ A. F. Pollard, Tudor Tracts" (London, 1903), 120.
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