Henry Macwilliam (c. 1532 – 1586) was a member of Parliament for Dorchester (1571), Liskeard (1572), Appleby (1584) and Carlisle (1586).MACWILLIAM, Henry (c.1532-86), of Stambourne Hall, Essex and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
He was the son of Henry Macwilliam (died 1539) and his second wife Elizabeth Leyes, a daughter of Sir John Leyes. His sister Anne married Arthur Stourton.'STOURTON, Arthur (by 1525-58)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982The history of the noble house of Stourton, 1, p. 315
His home was Stambourne Hall, Essex. He became Keeper of Colchester Castle.
He died on 27 December 1586.
Marriage and children He married Mary Cheke, daughter of Richard Hill, sergeant of the wine cellar to Henry VIII, and widow of John Cheke (died 1557), a lady of Elizabeth I's privy chamber. His children included: Henry Macwilliam, who was killed by Tom Compton in a duel in 1599.Thomas Wright, The history and topography of Essex, vol. 1, p. 640.Sarah Williams (historian), Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Camden Society, 1861), p. 52. Margaret Macwilliam, married Sir John Stanhope (d. 1621) Susannah Macwilliam, married Edward Saunders or Sandys, (2) Goddard Pemberton, (3) Thomas Ireland.PEMBERTON, Sir Goddard (c.1573-1616), of Hertingfordbury, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 Ambrosia Macwilliam, who married William Kingsmill, mother of William Kingsmill (died 1618) Cassandra Macwilliam, who married George Cotton (died 1613), grandmother of the poet Charles Cotton Cicely Macwilliam, who married Thomas Ridgeway, 1st Earl of Londonderry, she was said to have been a maid of honour to Elizabeth I.Victoria Burke, 'Anne, Lady Southwell', George Justice & Nathan Tinker, Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 99, 117 fn. 31.
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