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Mark Steward
Sir Mark Steward (1524–1604), of Heckfield in Hampshire and of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire, served as a Member of Parliament for Stockbridge in Hampshire (1597) and for St Ives in Cornwall (1588–9).STEWARD, Mark (1524–1604), of Heckfield, Hants; later of Stuntney, Cambs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 19/ref> He was knighted in 1603. Origins He was the 3rd son of Simeon Steward of Lakenheath in Suffolk by his wife Joan Besteney, daughter and heiress of Edward Besteney of Soham in Cambridgeshire. His uncles included Robert Steward (died 1557), Dean of Ely, and Edmund Steward (died 1559), Dean of Winchester 1554–1559 and another who became Pastor of the English congregation at Frankfurt where he was an associate of John Knox. The Steward family had been settled in East Anglia from the fifteenth century. Career As a younger son with no paternal inheritance, he was obliged to make his own career. Marriage and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomb Of Sir Mark Steward - Geograph
A tomb ( grc-gre, τύμβος ''tumbos'') is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial. Overview The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including: * Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred * Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church ** Cemetery ** Churchyard * Catacombs * Chamber tomb * Charnel house * Church monum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
