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Henry Newton (MP for Wells)

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Henry Newton (c. 1531 – 2 May 1599), of East Harptree, Somerset, Barrs Court and Hanham, Gloucestershire, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wells in 1571.[1]

When Sir Henry Newton was born in 1535 in East Harptree, Somerset, England, his father, Sir John Newton, was 36 and his mother, Lady Margaret Poyntz, was 25. He died on May 2, 1599, in Gloucestershire, England, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

He married Katherine Paston (died 1605) by 1579, a daughter of Sir Thomas Paston of Norfolk. She was a gentlewoman in the household of Elizabeth I.[2][3] The Queen gave her gifts of clothes.[4] They had six children. Their eldest son Theodore Newton married Penelope Rodney, a daughter John Rodney of Rodney Stoke.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "NEWTON, Henry (c.1531-99), of East Harptree, Som., Barr's Court and Hanham, Glos. | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Goldring, John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 2 (Oxford, 2014), p. 534.
  3. ^ Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590–1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 17, 288.
  4. ^ Janet Arnold, Lost from Her Majesties Back (Costume Society, 1980), pp. 55 no. 210, 79 no. 375.
  5. ^ W. Hamilton Rogers, "The Brook Family", Somersetshire Archaeological Society, 43 (1897), pp. 61-62.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Wells
1571
With: Ashton Aylworth
Succeeded by