Robert Richers (by 1524 – 1587/89) (''aliter'' Rychers, etc.), of

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and

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, was a lawyer who served as a

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for Reigate in Kent in 1547, April 1554 and November 1554, and for

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in Cornwall in 1558.

Life

He was a son of Henry Richers of Swannington in Norfolk, of an old gentry family, by his wife Cecily Tills, a daughter of Robert Tills of Runhall in Norfolk. He studied law at

and was

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in 1544. He died at some time before 12 Feb. 1589, when his will was proved.

Marriage and issue

At some time before November 1553 he married Elizabeth Cartwright, a daughter of Edmund Cartwright of Ossington in Nottinghamshire, by his wife Agnes Cranmer, a daughter of Thomas Cranmer of Sutton in Nottinghamshire, and the widow of Reginald Peckham (d.1551) of Yaldham in Kent. By his wife he had one son and five daughters including: *Mary Richers, who married Sir

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(1548-1624), of Lincoln's Inn and Norwich, Norfolk, a Judge of the King's Bench and a

for

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in 1593, the third son of John Houghton of Gunthorpe, Norfolk, by his wife Agnes Playford, a daughter of Robert Playford of Brinton, Norfolk. Mary erected the surviving mural monument to her husband in St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk, on which are shown her paternal arms of Richers: ''Argent, three annulets azure''Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.855 "Richers of Norfolk"; Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), p.19

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References

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