Sir Christopher Peyton (died 1612) was an English

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known for his service in Ireland where he oversaw the Peyton Survey, a preliminary investigation in preparation for the

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. He was made Auditor General of Ireland, and knighted by

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for his service. He was the younger son of Christopher Peyton of St Edmundsbury; his mother, Joanna (Mildmay) Peyton, was the sister of Sir Walter Mildmay,

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. He married Anne Palmer, daughter of William Palmer of

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and had three daughters, Anne, Cicely and Thomasine.Betham, p. 44 Through Anne and her second husband, the third Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury, he was the ancestor of the

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. Thomasine married firstly Captain Peter Castillion, a younger son of the Italian-born courtier

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, and secondly Sir Robert Pigott of Desart.

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Bibliography

*Betham, William ''The Baronetage of England'' Ipswich 1801 Vol. 1 * MacCarthy-Morrogh, Michael. ''The Munster Plantation: English Migration to Southern Ireland, 1583-1641''. Clarendon Press, 1986. People of Elizabethan Ireland 17th-century Irish lawyers English emigrants to Ireland 1612 deaths 16th-century English lawyers {{UK-law-bio-stub