Robert Cheeseman

Robert Cheeseman or Cheseman (1485–1547) was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesex 28 April 1539 – 24 July 1540.

Portrait by Holbein (1533).

Life

He was born in 1485, son and heir of Edward Cheseman, Cofferer and Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII, and succeeded to the family estates in 1517. He was made a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex in 1528, and served on a number of commissions for collecting tithes and subsidies, and so on. In 1530 he was one of the commissioners on an inquiry into the possessions of Thomas Wolsey after he was attainted, and was on the Grand Jury at the trials of Sir Geoffrey Pole and others (1538), and Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham for treason (1541). He was one of the gentlemen selected to welcome Anne of Cleves when she first landed in England. In 1536 he supplied thirty men for the army against the Northern rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace. He married Alice, daughter of Henry Dacres, of Mayfield, Staffordshire, a Merchant Tailor and Alderman of London.[1] He was married a second time to Eleanor Owlett May 5, 1523 Saint Andrews Baynard Castle, London. Together they had five children John, Robert, Eleanor, Anne and Raaf all born in Bedfordshire, England .

At his death he held the neighbouring manors of Southall and Norwood, Middlesex (now Greater London).[2] A monument was placed in Norwood chapel.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley, Hans Holbein (1902), p. 57; https://archive.org/stream/hansholbein00chamiala#page/n77/mode/2up
  2. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22401
  3. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45441

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