Thomas Marrow

Thomas Marrow (died 1561) was an English lawyer, landowner, and Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in 1554.[1]

Career

He was a son of Thomas Marrow (died 1538) of Wolston, Warwickshire, and Rudfyn at Kenilworth,[2] and was said to be a descendant of two mayors of London John Shadworth and William Marrow.[3] Like his father, he was trained and practiced as a lawyer in London. Marrow bought up lands in Warwickshire around Berkswell; Mary I of England granted Marrow the Barony of Barnstaple and the Manor of Birmingham in 1555 or 1557.[4]

A stained glass window at Knowle Parish Church commemorated his grandfather Thomas Marrow, and other windows had the arms of local landowners including Thomas Dabridgecourt and Edward Ferrers.[5]

Marriage and children

Thomas Marrow married Alice Young. Their ten children included:

• Samuel Marrow (died 1610), who married Margaret Lyttleton, a daughter of Sir John Lyttelton (1519–1590).[6] Their daughter Bridget Marrow was a keeper of the jewels of Anne of Denmark.[7]
• Thomas Marrow

References

1. Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), p. 573.
2. Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), p. 573.
3. John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
4. Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), pp. 573-4.
5. John Hannet, The forest of Arden, its towns, villages, and hamlets (London, 1863), p. 232.
6. Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, An Account of an Elizabethan Family (Cambridge, 2018), p. 120: John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
7. Jemma Field, 'A Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds: Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display', Erin Griffey, Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam, 2019), p. 143.