1553 THOMAS DAVENPORT,
(168)
(Merchant of the Staple of Calais).
Believed to have been a native of London and descended from a Cheshire family; born about 1518, enrolled a freeman of Leic. 1541~2, about which date he succeeded, as a wool merchant, to the business previously carried on by AId. William Wigston, the founder of the Hospital. He was an alderman in 1550, married Mary, daughter of Henry Barnes of London, by his wife Jane, a stepdaughter of the benevolent Wigston, and by her, who remarried AId. Nicholas English of Leic. (No. 184) and died 1564, he had issue. AId. Davenport died in June 1558 and was buried in the rood chapel within St. Martin's church. Will, dated 14 Dec. 1556, was proved in the P.C.C., London, 6 July 1558.
(Queen Mary crowned at Westminster, 1 October 1553).
