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Thomas Egerton (by 1521 – 1590/97) was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He served as Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London from 1552 to 1555. In this capacity, he and John Godsalve issued the double-faced shillings of Philip and Mary. However he was held to have unduly profited from a ...
Master of the Mint is a title within the Royal Mint given to the most senior person responsible for its operation. It was an office in the governments of Scotland and England, and later Great Britain and then the United Kingdom, between the 16th and 19th centuries. Until 1699, the appointment was usually for life.
Thomas Egerton may refer to: Thomas Egerton (mercer) (by 1521–c. 1597), Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint; Thomas Egerton (killed 1599) (1574–1599), MP for Cheshire; Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540–1617), Lord Keeper 1596–1616; Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton (1749–1814) Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton (1799–1882)
Another general restructuring of the Mint in the spring of 1552 resulted in the appointment of Thomas Egerton as Under-Treasurer and Stanley's promotion to Comptroller. [7] Egerton was dismissed from office by Mary I's government in 1555, and from that time until 1571 control of the Tower Mint was essentially in the hands of Thomas Stanley. On ...
The title Viscount Brackley has been created twice for members of the Egerton family; once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.. The first creation in the Peerage of England was in 1616 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere (1540–1617), [1] who had been created 1st Baron Ellesmere in 1603.
Arms of Egerton: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable [1] Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, PC (c. 1540 – 15 March 1617), known as Lord Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616, was an English nobleman, judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.
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Sir Thomas Markenfield was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1484 and fought on the side of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. In 1569 Thomas de Markenfield was involved in the pro-Catholic Rising of the North and fled to the Continent. [11] Markenfield was confiscated and granted to Thomas Egerton, Master of the Rolls.