Thomas Moryson or Morrison (died 19 February 1592), of Cadeby,

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, was a 16th-century

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who sat as MP for

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from 1572 until 1589. The son of George Moryson, of

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, in 1555, he became Commissioner for Sewers of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire. He was granted a Crown lease or 21 years of lands near

in 1559 and in 1561 acquired the manor of Beesby, Lincolnshire. Appointed a Justice of the Peace for

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in 1564, by 1569, he was Deputy Clerk to Christopher Smith at the

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. History of Parliament Online - Thomas Morrison
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in 1572, he became Mayor of Great Grimsby in 1576, and Clerk of the Pipe by January 1579.

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nominated him as a Bencher of

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on 28 February 1584 and he was returned to Parliament representing Grimsby until 1589. He married in 1559 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Moigne, of Willingham,

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. They had two daughters and five sons of whom Richard Moryson was a soldier and MP, and

Fynes Moryson Fynes Moryson (or Morison) (1566 – 12 February 1630) spent most of the decade of the 1590s travelling on the European continent and the eastern Mediterranean lands. He wrote about it later in his multi-volume ''Itinerary'', a work of value to ...

was a writer and historian.www.south-willingham.org
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moryson, Thomas Year of birth missing 1592 deaths English MPs 1572–1583 English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1589 Mayors of Grimsby Commissioners for sewers Members of the Parliament of England for Great Grimsby

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