Richard Whalley (1498/99–1583), of Kirton,

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and

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, Nottinghamshire and

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, was an English politician.

Family

Whalley was the only son of Thomas Whalley of Kirton, and his second wife Elizabeth née Strelley, the daughter of John Strelley of

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. Whalley married three times and had twenty-five recorded children. Firstly, Laura née Brockman, daughter of Thomas Brockman or Brookman of Essex. They had five children. By 1540, he had married his second wife, Ursula. Her maiden name is unrecorded, and they had thirteen children. His third wife, Barbara, we also know little of, but they had seven children together.

Education and career

Whalley was educated at

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. He was a

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(MP) of the

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in 1547,

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in April 1554, and

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in November 1554 and 1555. He was one of several Nottinghamshire gentry involved in the contentious dissolution of Lenton Priory in 1538.

References

1499 births 1583 deaths People from Wimbledon, London Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People from Newark and Sherwood (district) English MPs 1547–1552 English MPs 1554 English MPs 1554–1555 English MPs 1555 People from Welbeck People from Rushcliffe (district) {{16thC-England-MP-stub