Lawrence Tanfield
b.Abt 1554
d.13 Apr 1625
m. - Lawrence TanfieldAbt 1554 - 1625
- H. Lawrence TanfieldAbt 1554 - 1625
- W. Elizabeth Evans (add)
m. Bef 1620
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Sir Lawrence Tanfield (c. 1551 – 30 April 1625) was an English lawyer, politician and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He had a reputation for corruption, and the harshness which he and his wife showed to his tenants was remembered for centuries after their deaths.
References
- Lawrence Tanfield, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- Sir Laurence Tanfield, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- ↑ Harvey, William; Augustine Vincent; and Walter C. (Walter Charles)(ed.) Metcalfe. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19: with Northamptonshire pedigrees from various Harleian mss. (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887)
p. 141.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 TANFIELD, Lawrence (c.1554-1625), of Burford Priory, Oxon.; Wych Street, Westminster and Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, London, in The History of Parliament.
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