Sir Hugh Calverley (by 1506–58), of Lea, Cheshire, was an English courtier, soldier, and Member of Parliament (MP).
He was a son of George Calverley of Lea and Elizabeth, daughter Piers or Peter Dutton of Dutton and Hatton.CALVERLEY, Sir Hugh (by 1506-58), of Lea, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
Calverley was gentleman of the household of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.John Gough Nichols, "Memoir of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset", Camden Miscellany, 3 (London, 1855), p. lxxi. His brother John was a valet to Mary I of England, and served at her wedding in Winchester.John Gough Nichols, "Autobiography of Edward Underhill", Narratives of the days of the Reformation (London: Camden Society, 1859), p. 169: John Burke, The Patrician, 4 (London, 1847), p. 6.
Hugh Calverley was a Member of the Parliament of England for Cheshire in 1545.CALVERLEY, Sir Hugh (by 1506-58), of Lea, Cheshire, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
Calverly was present at the burning of Edinburgh in May 1544,HMC Longleat: Seymour Papers, IV (London, 1968), p. 71. where he was knighted at Leith.Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 19:1 (London, 1903), no. 531 (2): John Stow Chronicle: The Knights of England (London, 1906), vol. 2, pp. 55–57. A "Cavarley" serving at the battle of Pinkie in 1547 was injured by a pike thrust.A. F. Pollard, Tudor Tracts (London, 1903), 120.
He married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Tattenhall of Bulkeley, Cheshire.
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