James Dyer, Speaker of the House of Commons; Chief Justice of England

1510 - Abt 1583  (~ 74 years)

• Name	James Dyer  [1]
  Suffix	Speaker of the House of Commons; Chief Justice of England
  Birth	Between 1509 and 1510  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1512	Roundhill, Somerset, England   [3]
  Death	Abt 1583	Great Stoughton, Huntingdonshire, England   [3]
  Person ID	I41577	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Richard Dyer,   b. of Roundhill and Wincanton, Somerset, England
  Mother	(Unknown) Walton
  Family ID	F24322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Abarrow
  Marriage	Aft 9 Feb 1547  [2]
  Family ID	F24321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Member of PArliament for Wells in 1542 and Cambridgeshire in 1547 and March 1553. He was Speaker of the House of Commons in March 1553; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on 8 May 1557, and Chief Justice from 22 Jan 1559.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7899] Kelly M. Keegan, "New Information on the Ancestry of Felix Carter of Claydon, Oxfordshire, Grandfather of Thomas1 Boreman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Samuel1 Boreman of Ipswich and Wethersfield, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178:332, Fall 2024. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S7902] Somersetshire: Highways, Byways, and Waterways by C. R. B. Barrett. London: Bliss, Sands, & Foster, 1894.