Nicholas Snell (fl
Nicholas Snell may refer to: * Nicholas Snell (died 1577), MP for Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wiltshire * Nicholas Snell (fl.1373-1388), MP for Stafford (UK Parliament constituency) Stafford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Theodora Clarke, a Conservative. The seat since its resurrection in 1983 has proven to be somewhat of a bellwether being held always by the in ...

Nicholas Snell (died 1577)
Nicholas Snell (by 1515 1577), of Kington St Michael, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chippenham in 1555, 1559 and 1563; for Wiltshire in 1558; and Malmesbury in 1571 and 1572. Snell and/or his father, Richard, were employed by the last abbot of Glastonbury. In 1544, Snell bought from the Crown the manor of Kington St Michael, Wiltshire, which had formerly been a grange Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery Geography Australia * Grange, South Austral ... of the abbey, and he went on to own considerable areas of land in Wiltshire. He was appointed JP in 1554, and around the same time became the steward of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1565. By 1537 he had married Alice, daughter of John Pye, ...
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Nicholas Snell (fl
Nicholas Snell may refer to: * Nicholas Snell (died 1577), MP for Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wiltshire * Nicholas Snell (fl.1373-1388), MP for Stafford (UK Parliament constituency) Stafford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Theodora Clarke, a Conservative. The seat since its resurrection in 1983 has proven to be somewhat of a bellwether being held always by the in ...