Arthur Harris (High Sheriff Of Essex)

Sir Arthur Harris (c. 1530–) of Creeksea Place in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

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, served as

High Sheriff of Essex The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the ...

in 1589, a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Commissioners appointed in 1577 to enquire into piratical practices along the Essex coast. He married Dorothy Waldegrave a daughter of Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge in Essex, by his wife Julia Reynsford. It has been established that Sir Arthur Harris lived at

Creeksea Creeksea is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burnham-on-Crouch, in the Maldon district, in the county of Essex, England. It is on the Dengie peninsula on the north side of the River Crouch, one mile west of Burnham-on-Crou ...

Woodham Mortimer Woodham Mortimer is a village on the Dengie peninsula about three miles west-south-west of Maldon in the English county of Essex. The village is part of the Wickham Bishops and Woodham ward of the Maldon district. History The discovery of a ho ...

Cold Norton Cold Norton is a village on the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, England. It is located in rural countryside 10 miles to the east of Chelmsford, and lies just over a mile to the north of the River Crouch, which can be seen from the village's main hill ...

and in the

City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...

. Sir Arthur Harris built the surviving manor house Creeksea Place in

, Essex. Sir Arthur Harris died 7 July 1597 and is buried at St. Mary's Church in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. ;Children of Sir Arthur Harris and Dorothy Waldegrave: #Sir

William Harris William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to: Politicians and political activists *William Harris (born 1504) (1504–?), MP for Newport, Cornwall *William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon (UK Parliament constituency), Maldon *William Harris (MP ...

#Dorothy Harris – b. ca. 1561 in Essex, died 1626. Married Robert Kempe. See also his nephew, by his brother William:
Herrys (Harris), Sir Arthur (c. 1587–1632), of Creeksea Place and Woodham Mortimer, Essex
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