Thomas Hungate ( – 1579) of
Saxton, North Yorkshire, was an
English politician. He was a
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of the
Parliament of England
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(MP) for the seat of
Maldon
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in 1554,
Lancaster
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...
in 1555 and
Newport Iuxta Launceston in 1558.
Early life and marriage
Hungate was born about 1516, the third son of William Hungate (d. 1547) of Saxton and Alice Gower, daughter of Sir William Gower of Stittenham, Yorkshire.
He married Isabel Metham, daughter of Sir Thomas Metham of
Metham, with whom he had two sons:
* William Hungate
* Thomas Hungate
Career
Hungate was a servant of
Sir Anthony Browne by 1535;
avener to
Queen Jane Seymour by 1537, to
Anne of Cleves
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and
Catherine Parr
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;
commissioner of sewers, for
Lincolnshire
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,
Nottinghamshire
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and
Yorkshire
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in 1545; member of the household of
Princess Mary by 1551 to 1553;
forester
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,
Galtres, Yorkshire from 1554 to 1572;
esquire of the body by September, 1554 to 1558.
In July 1553 Princess Mary wrote to the
Privy Council from
Kenninghall
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Kenninghall is located north-west of Diss and south-west of Norwich.
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, demanding that it renounce
Jane Grey
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and recognize her as queen, as her father's will decreed.
Mary sent her servant, Thomas Hungate, to deliver her letters to the Council in London. Hungate, who had "eagerly offered himself for this task, despite is danger", hurried to London where he "bravely delivered the queen's commands to Northumberland and the other noblemen and gave them her letters."
Hungate arrived on 10 July, while the Council was in session, with letters from Kenninghall dated the day before. The
Duke of Northumberland
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told him that at his age, he should have had more sense. He was immediately sent to the
Tower of London
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.
He received no preferment during the reign of
Elizabeth I
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.
Death
His wife and sons had died before he made his will which was dated 16 April 1578. The supervisors of his will, in which he left legacies to a number of relations, were
Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu
Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, Order of the Bath, KB, Privy Council of England, PC (29 November 1528 – 19 October 1592) was an English peerage of England, peer during the Tudor period. He was a staunch Roman Catholic, but unswervingly l ...
,
Sir William Cordell and
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
Thomas Radclyffe (or Ratclyffe), 3rd Earl of Sussex KG (c. 15259 June 1583), was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Family
He was the eldest son of ...
; Cordell and Sussex were to share an annuity of £20 "for the great goodness heretofore I have found and for the great goodness I hope hereafter mine shall find at their hands". He died in 1579 and was buried in the Hungate
quire of
Saxton church.
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External links
HUNGATE, Thomas (by 1516-79), of Saxton, Yorks.in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-155'', ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982.
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1510s births
1579 deaths
Esquires of the Body
English MPs 1554
English MPs 1555
English MPs 1558
People from Yorkshire