Wriothesley, Thomas

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see Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of; Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of.

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Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl Of - c.1500–1550, lord chancellor of England. Appointed a clerk of the signet in 1530, he rose in the favor of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, who granted him many of the lands of the dissolved monast...