Maulger Norton (born ca. 1593) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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in 1640.
Norton was the son of Robert Norton of
Swinton, South Yorkshire
Swinton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England on the west bank of the River Don. It has a population of 15,559 (2011). The town is five miles north-northeast of the larger town of Rotherham and direct ...
and his wife, Catherine Stavely, daughter of John Stavely, of Swinton who left his estates to his daughter.
In April 1640, Norton was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
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in the
Short Parliament
The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short life of only three weeks.
Af ...
.
In 1665 Norton was of St Nicholas, near
Richmond, Yorkshire
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, aged seventy-two.
By 1667 Norton was a receiver of crown revenues for Durham, Northumberland and Richmond. In September of that year he got into difficulties and was called in for a review of his accounts. Proceedings were issued against his estate and he was put into custody, to be released on 16 September. By September 1669 he was suspended from receiving rents for Northumberland and Durham and the archdeaconry of Richmond.
Norton married Ann Wandesford, daughter of Sir George Wandesford, of
Kirklington, Yorkshire
Kirklington is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire close to the A1(M) motorway. Kirklington forms the major part of the civil parish of Kirklington-cum-Upsland which is in the district of Hambleton.
The population of the pari ...
and sister of
Christopher Wandesford
Christopher Wandesford (24 September 1592 – 3 December 1640) was an English administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1621 and 1629. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the last months of hi ...
. They had two sons, John and Michael, and a daughter Mary who married
Sir John Yorke
Sir John York or Yorke (c.1490-1569) was an English merchant and landowner who became Master of the Mint and a Member of Parliament.
Life Early career
He was born about 1490,the third son of John Yorke, by his wife Katherine Patterdale or P ...
, MP for Richmond
John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain Volume 4''
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1590s births
Year of death missing
People from Richmond, North Yorkshire
English MPs 1640 (April)