Thomas Urswick

Abt 1415 - 1479  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Thomas Urswick
  Birth	Abt 1415  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1419	of Uphavering, Essex, England   [2, 3]
  Death	19 Mar 1479  [1]
  Alternate death	Bef 5 Nov 1479  [4]
  Burial	St. Peter & St. Paul, Dagenham, Essex, England   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I29029	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2020

  
  

  Family	Isabel Rich
  Marriage	Between 1456 and 1457  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Urswick,   b. Abt 1460
  Family ID	F17311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "[M]ost likely the son of Sir Thomas Urswick of Badsworth and his wife, Joan, the daughter of Roger Hertforth of Badsworth." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] MP for Midhurst in Sussex 1449. Serjeant and attorney to the duchy of Lancaster 1452. Citizen of London Jan 1452. Common Serjeant of London 27 Jun 1453. Recorder of London from 3 Oct 1454 to shortly after his appointment as Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Burgess (M.P.) for London in 1461, 1463, 1467, and 1470. "Although he sat in the parliament of Henry VI's readeption in 1470, he showed notable Yorkist sympathies in the following year, first on 11 April, when he was one of the leading citizens who admitted Edward IV to London, and again in May, when he was prominent in London's resistance to Thomas Fauconberg. For these services he was knighted by the king, and on 22 May 1471 was appointed chief baron of the exchequer, receiving 110 marks and two robes yearly as well as the usual fee. He resigned as recorder of London, and the citizens, too, rewarded him, with the grant of a pipe of wine yearly." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S4257] Records of the Family of Urswyk, Urswick, or Urwick by Thomas A. Urwick, ed. William Urwick. St. Albans, Hertfordshire: St. Albans Press, 1893., date only. [S4257] Records of the Family of Urswyk, Urswick, or Urwick by Thomas A. Urwick, ed. William Urwick. St. Albans, Hertfordshire: St. Albans Press, 1893.