Henry Woodhouse (c. 1545 – 8 October 1624), of Hickling and Waxham, Norfolk, was an English politician.

Henry Woodhouse was the second son of Sir William Woodhouse and his first wife Anne Repps. After his mother's death his father remarried to Elizabeth Calthorpe, widow of Sir Henry Parker.[1]

Henry Woodhouse was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norfolk in 1572 and 1589.[2]

Family edit

Henry Woodhouse married firstly Anne Bacon, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon. Their children included;

Henry Woodhouse married secondly Cecily Gresham, daughter of Thomas Gresham. Their children included;

  • Gresham Woodhouse (1588–1656), in 1602 his grandmother Beatrice Gresham gave him a property called Bolthurst in Limpsfield, he was buried at Wendover[5]
  • Elizabeth Woodhouse (1598–1652), married the politician and antiquarian William Hakewill

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e 'Woodhouse', in W. Rye (ed.), The Visitacion of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cook: with many other descents (etc.), Harleian Society XXXII (London 1891), pp. 320-23, at p. 321 (Internet Archive).
  2. ^ "WOODHOUSE, Henry (C.1545-1624), of Hickling and Waxham, Norf. | History of Parliament Online".
  3. ^ a b c d Francis Blomefield & Charles Parkin, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, vol. 9 (London, 1808), p. 353.
  4. ^ John Maclean, Letters from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe (Camden Society, London, 1860), p. 11.
  5. ^ George Lipscombe, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, vol. 2 (London, 1847), p. 489.