Sir Nicholas Hare of Bruisyard, Suffolk (c. 1484 – 31 October 1557) was Speaker of the House of Commons of England between 1539 and 1540.
Life
He was born the eldest son of John Hare of
Homersfield
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, Suffolk, educated at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1515. He had three sisters, who were married to MPs, and a brother, John Hare of
Stow Bardolph
Stow Bardolph, sometimes simply referred to as Stow, is an estate and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, lying between King's Lynn and Downham Market on the A10.
It covers an area of and had a population of 1,014 in 421 household ...
, Norfolk.
He was MP for
Downton, Wiltshire
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in 1529 and possibly
Wiltshire
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in 1539 (when he was elected
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* Speaker of ...
),
Lancaster in 1545 and
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...
in 1547. In 1539 the nunnery of
Bruisyard
Bruisyard is a village in the valley of the River Alde in the county of Suffolk, England. The village had a population of around 175 at the 2011 census. was dissolved and assigned by Henry VIII to Sir Nicholas. He was knighted in May 1539 and eventually became
Master of the Rolls
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(1553–1557).
In 1554 he presided at the trial of
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had been accused of involvement in
Wyatt's rebellion against the marriage of Queen Mary to Felipe of Spain.
Sir Nicholas died in Chancery Lane in 1557 and was buried in nearby
Temple Church
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, commemorated in the south bay window of the new
Inner Temple Hall
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.
Family
Hare married Catherine, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Bassingbourne of Woodhall near
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 29,616 in 2001, and 39,201 at the 2011 Census. The settlement is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of ...
. They had three sons and three daughters. The second son was
Robert Hare the antiquary.
References
History of Parliament Hare, Nicholas (by 1495–1557) of Bruisyard, Suffolk
1480s births
1557 deaths
Speakers of the House of Commons of England
Masters of the Rolls
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Year of birth uncertain
English MPs 1529–1536
English MPs 1539–1540
English MPs 1545–1547
English MPs 1547–1552
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