Hugh Calveley (c. 1578 – 20 September 1606), of

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, was an English politician who represented as a Member of Parliament in 1601 during the latter years of the reign of

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.History of Parliament Online: Hugh Calverley of Lea, Cheshire (c. 1578-1606)
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Family and education

He was born circa 1578, the second son of Hugh Calveley of Lea and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph Leycester of Toft. He matriculated at The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, Oxford in 1594. The college was associated with Lancashire and Cheshire, the county origins of its two founders, and contained many

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sympathizers during an era of

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ascendancy. He became a member of The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1597. Calveley came of a good family, his father being

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in 1586, and both his grandfather and his father's elder brother sitting for the county in Parliament. A younger son who died in his twenties, almost nothing is known of him, including how he came to be returned to Parliament for Liverpool. He died at

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on 20 September 1606 and was buried near many of his ancestors in Saint Boniface's Church in Higher Bunbury, Cheshire. He was unmarried.

Sources

*Al. Ox. i. 231; *Ormerod, Cheshire, ii. 709; *Lancs. and Cheshire Funeral Certs. (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. vi), 59.

References

1570s births 1606 deaths English MPs 1601 People from Cheshire Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Liverpool {{17thC-England-MP-stub