Richard Goldthorpe

Name: Richard Goldthorpe 1 2 3 Sex: M Birth: 1514 in Histon, Cambridgeshire, England 1 Residence: York, North Yorkshire, England 3 Occupation: 1556 Lord Mayor of York/ 3 ALIA: /Richard Galthorpe/ 3 Death: 1560 3 Birth: ABT 1514 3 Occupation: Haberdasher of York/ 3 Occupation: Alderman/ Death: in Yorkshire, England 1 Birth: ABT 1510 in Yorkshire, England 2 Note: [Richard Hodgson]

aka Galthorpe Richard Goldthorpe, Lord Mayor of York 1556 and MP 1559.
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Haberdasher of York.
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Immediately following the Dissolution, the site on which the Priory of St Andrews, York had stood was held in the tenure Richard Goldthorpe, a York haberdasher and future alderman, and in 1545, the land was granted to John Broxholme and John Bellowe. (http://www.archaeologicalplanningconsultancy.co.uk/mono/001/)
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The nunnery at St Clement's Priory, York, was suppressed in 1536; Sir Arthur Darcy was licensed later that year to alienate it in 1543 and the site passed to Richard Goldthorp, in whose family it remained until at least 1599.
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Lord Mayor of York and the MP for the City. (http://www.yorkconservationtrust.org/properties/IngramHouse/IngramHou seBootham.html)
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In 1560 at the death of Alderman Richard Goldthorp he was found to have held St Clementhorpe and St Andrew Priory.

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ConstituencyDates YORK 1559 Family and Education m. by 1541, Jane, da. of John Norman† of York, wid. of Richard Thornton of York, 2s. 7da.

Offices Held Freeman, York Aug. 1540, chamberlain 1549-50, sheriff 1551-2, alderman 1555, ld. mayor 1556-7.

Biography Goldthorpe was a haberdasher who bought a country estate, Clementhorpe priory, from Sir Arthur Darcy, together with lands in Bishopthorpe, Middlethorpe and elsewhere in Yorkshire, part of which he later sold to the archbishop of York. Goldthorpe died 16 Mar. 1560, and was buried in York minster. A Catholic, he promised ‘an alb with a vestment’ for St. Thomas’s Hospital, York, and it was during his mayoralty that mass was said again in St. William’s chapel, Ouse Bridge. His will bequeathed the Clementhorpe property to his wife, and after her death to their sons Thomas and Peter. Thomas, the heir, was only 18, and in November 1560 his wardship was granted to Sir Thomas Gargrave.

Corpus Christi Reg. (Surtees Soc. lvii), 232, 305; M.I. in York minster; York City Lib., Skaife mss; York Civic Recs. passim; York Freemen (Surtees Soc. xcvi), 268; LP Hen. VIII, xvii(1), p. 360; CPR, 1547-8, p. 204; 1558-60, p. 327; C142/125/74.

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: N. M. Fuidge