Nicholas Crispe (by 1530–1564), from Whitstable, Kent, was an English politician.

Family

Nicholas Crispe was the eldest son of Sir Henry Crispe and Katherine Scott (buried 9 Feb. 1545), the daughter of

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of Scot's Hall in

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, Kent.Crispe, Nicholas (by 1530-64), of Whitstable, Kent, History of Parliament
Retrieved 21 August 2013.

Career

Crispe was educated at Gray's Inn, (1544). He was elected a

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(MP) of the Parliament of England for Sandwich in November 1554 and 1558. he was appointed

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for 1559–60 and sat on the bench as a

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for the county from 1562 to his death.

Marriages and issue

Crispe married firstly Frances Cheyne, the daughter of Sir Thomas Cheyne of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, and his first wife, Frideswide Frowyk (died c. 1528), the daughter of Sir Thomas Frowyk, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,'Parishes: Shalbourne', ''A History of the County of Berkshire'': Volume 4 (1924), pp. 228-234
Retrieved 18 August 2013. by whom he had an only daughter, Dorothy Crispe, who at his death became the ward of Sir Francis Knollys. Crispe married secondly Mary Glemham, the daughter of Christopher Glemham of Glemham,

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. Crispe's property was inherited by his daughter Dorothy.

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* * * * 1564 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Whitstable Members of Gray's Inn English MPs 1554–1555 English MPs 1558 High Sheriffs of Kent {{16thC-England-MP-stub