Thomas Curwen

Thomas Curwen (1415–1486/1487)[1] was a 15th-century sheriff of Cumberland. He was son of William Curwen and Elizabeth, daughter of John Huddleston of Millom Castle.[2] He held numerous offices around the region, including elector of the county (at which election he himself was elected), escheator and on various commissions. He was knighted in 1449.[1] He was a supporter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland in Westmorland in the 1450s[3] during the Percy–Neville feud, although he made his peace when the Yorkist Edward IV took the throne in 1461.[4] When Edward's brother Richard took the throne in 1483, Curwen was appointed to each of his Cumberland commissions, although, as the parliamentary historian Josiah Wedgwood notes, "he must have been a very old man".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wedgwood, Josiah Clement (November 20, 1936). "History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House". H.M. Stationery Office – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "CURWEN, Christopher (d.1450), of Workington, Cumb. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  3. ^ Boardman, Steven; Ditchburn, David (November 20, 2022). Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781783277162 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Jalland, Patricia. “The Influence of the Aristocracy on Shire Elections in the North of England, 1450-70.” Speculum, vol. 47, no. 3, 1972, pp. 483–507. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2856156. Accessed 20 Nov. 2023.


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