Sir Thomas Stradling, MP

See Peter Bartrum, http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6268/GAMAGE%2... (February 22, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173426987957 Stradling 3 (May 5, 2024; Anne Brannen, curator)

Family and Education

b. by 1495, 1st s. of Sir Edward Stradling of St. Donats by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne, Cornw. m. settlement 20 Aug. 1516, Catherine, da. of Sir Thomas Gamage of Coity, Glam., 2s. David and Edward 5da. suc. fa. 8 May 1535. Kntd. 17 Feb. 1549. Stradling died at St. Donats on 27 Jan. 1571.

By his will of 19 Dec. 1566 he had placed sums of money in trust at a friend’s house in London for his second son and two of his daughters, all of whom were probably abroad; by a codicil added on 11 Jan. 1571 David Stradling was also to receive all his apparel and his great chain of gold. He made charitable bequests to over 20 parishes in Glamorgan and left one cow to each of 17 young married couples ‘so long as they be no town dwellers’. His lands and the residue of his goods passed to his elder son Edward. The executors were Dr. John Gibbon and Hugh Griffith, one of the six clerks in Chancery, and the overseers Sir Thomas Palmer, Stradling’s brother-in-law, and John, Lord Lumley. The will was proved on 4 Mar. 1572.

Biography

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