Henry Ward, MP, of Kirby Bedon & Postwick

Henry Warde was born circa 1519, the eldest son of Robert Ward of Kirby Bedon by Alice, da. of Sir Giles Capell of London. Henry Ward came of a family of lesser Norfolk gentry.

Married Margaret, daughter of William Uggs of Pockthorpe by Norwich, Norfolk by 1540.

He was well educated in the field of law and admitted into the Gray's Inn in 1539 and recommended for the position of town clerk of Norwich by Richard Cromwell. He did not receive the job because the city wanted a local man. The following year he moved to Norwich. He held offices in the field of law in Norfolk from 1542 until his death.

Henry died on 8 May 1556. His will, dated 25 Feb 1556, was made at Gray’s Inn as a sick man. He claimed indebtedness as his reason for not giving legacies, he supplemented what he had already done for his wife and children by dividing his property among them. He made his wife sole executrix and asked her to have a mass and dirge said for him at each of her four manors; as supervisors he named John Stubbes (perhaps the father of John Stubbe the Puritan), and two of his colleagues at Gray’s Inn, John Birch and Robert Flint. The will was proved on 6 May 1557 and in the following November his widow was granted wardship of his heir, Edward (15 years old) and an annuity from the Flitcham property for his maintenance.

sources

1. https://archive.org/stream/visitacionievisi32ryew#page/304/mode/2up Walter Rye, ed.,The Visitation of Norfolk made ... 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke ... and also the Vissitation made ... 1613. (1891) (Internet Archive - Text Archive) Harleian Society, volume 32.  "Ward and Warde.". Page 304, 305
2. http://books.google.com/books?id=CflJAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA173&ots=hRy52fa... Archaeologia Cambrensis (Google eBook) Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1880 - Wales. "Notes on Joyce Cherleton etc."   Page 173.
3. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/wa...

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