Francis Walsingham

Abt 1532 - 1590  (~ 58 years)

• Name	Francis Walsingham  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1532  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Apr 1590	Seething Lane, London, England   [3]
  Person ID	I28376	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	William Walsingham,   b. Aft 1480, of Scadbury in Chislehurst, Kent, England d. 1534 (Age < 52 years)
  Mother	Joyce Denny,   b. 1507   d. 1560 (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F16930	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Principal secretary to Elizabeth I from 20 Dec 1573 to his death. Popularly remembered as her "spymaster."

  
  

• Sources

  [S4048] H. L. L. Denny, "Some Pedigrees of Denny, Le Denneys, Etc." Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology & History 19:322, 1927. [S4050] H. L. L. Denny, "Biography of the Right Honourable Sir Anthony Denny, P.C., M.P." Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society 3:197, 1906. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.