Dudley Fortescue (MP for Sudbury)

Dudley Fortescue (died 1604), of Faulkbourne, Essex, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).

The son of the politician Henry Fortescue, Dudley was a Member of the Parliament of England for Sudbury in 1593.[1] In September 1604 he hanged himself at Blunt's Hall in Little Wratting.[2] As his death was caused by suicide, his property and goods were forfeit to the crown. King James awarded his goods to Margaret Hartsyde, a chamberer servant of Anne of Denmark, and the Privy Council wrote to Sir Nicholas Bacon to make sure she got full benefit.[3]

References

1. http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/fortescue-dudley-1604
2. FORTESCUE, Dudley (d.1604), of Faulkbourne, Essex, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
3. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Letters from Redgrave Hall (Suffolk Record Society, Boydell, 2007), pp. 82-3 nos. 132, 133.