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Sir Christopher More
Bornc. 1483
Died16 August 1549 (aged 65–66)
Spouses
  • Margaret Mugge or Mudge
  • Constance Sackville
ChildrenSir William More
Richard More
Christopher More
Christopher More (again)
John More
Elizabeth More
Cecily More
Margaret More
Eleanor More
Bridget More
Anne More
Elizabeth More (again)
Parent(s)John More, Elizabeth (surname unknown)

Sir Christopher More (c. 1483 – 16 August 1549) was an English administrator, landowner, and

Member of Parliament. More was the son of John More, a London fishmonger, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was active in local administration in Sussex and Surrey, and from 1505 until his death held office in the Exchequer, rising in 1542 to the post of King's Remembrancer. His sister, Alice More, was the fourth wife of Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More.[1]

Family

Christopher More, born about 1483, was the grandson of Thomas More of Norton, Derbyshire. He was the son of a London fishmonger, John More, and his wife, Elizabeth. He had a brother, Robert More of London, who married a wife named Mary, and two sisters, Alice (d. 1545), who married firstly John Clerke, and secondly Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More,[1] and Anne, who married John Lucas of Halden, Kent.[2]

Career

Loseley today; the property was purchased by Sir Christopher More about 1509

More was a clerk in the

alnager for Surrey and Sussex. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1513, becoming one of the first officers in the Exchequer known to have been formally trained in the law.[3]

He served as Commissioner for the Subsidy in Surrey on several occasions from 1515 on, and by 1519 had been appointed

Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey
in 1532-3 and again in 1539-40.

In November 1539, he was among those appointed to attend as a guard of honour to meet

Knight of the Shire for Surrey in 1539, and again in 1547.[3]

More is said to have been the first member of his family to settle in Surrey, and about 1509 he purchased the manor of

Dissolution, More also purchased some former monastic lands.[3]

More made his will on 28 June 1549, appointing as executors his second wife, Constance, and son,

St. Nicolas' Church, Guildford.[5]

Marriages and issue

More married firstly, Margaret Mugge or Mudge, the daughter of Walter Mugge or Mudge of Guildford, Surrey, by whom he had five sons, Sir William More, Richard, two sons named Christopher, and John, and seven daughters, Elizabeth; Cecily; Margaret, who married Thomas Fiennes, a brother of Lord Dacre; Eleanor, who married William Heneage of Milton; Bridget, who married a husband surnamed Compton, of Guernsey; Anne, who married John Scarlett; and Elizabeth, who married John Wintershall or Wintershull.[6]

More married secondly, by 1535, Constance Sackville, widow of William Heneage (d. 10 June 1525). She was the daughter of Richard Sackville (d. 28 July 1524),[7] esquire, of Withyham, Sussex, and the sister of John Sackville.[3][8] Constance survived him, and died at Shalford, Surrey, on 29 March 1554.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ives 1983, pp. 469–70.
  2. ^ Burke & Burke 1838, p. 368; Brayley 1841, pp. 358, 416–18; Robison 2004; Ives 2004.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Christopher More (1483-1549), History of Parliament Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  4. ^ Shaw 1906, p. 52; Robison 2004
  5. ^ Robison 2004.
  6. ^ Burke & Burke 1838, p. 368; Brayley 1841, pp. 358, 416–18; Robison 2004.
  7. ^ Brydges gives his date of death as 18 July 1524.
  8. ^ Brydges 1812, pp. 103–4.
  9. ^ Attree 1912, p. 120; Maddison 1903, p. 481; Robison 2004.

References

  • Attree, F.W.T., ed. (1912). Notes of Post Mortem Inquisitions Taken in Sussex. Vol. XIV. London: Sussex Record Society. pp. 120–1, 196. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  • Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1841). A Topographical History of Surrey. Vol. I. London: Tilt and Bogue. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  • Brydges, Egerton, ed. (1812). Collins's Peerage of England. Vol. II. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son. pp. 90–180. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  • Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard, eds. (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. London: Scott Webster and Geary. Retrieved 21 February 2013. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Ives, E.W. (1983). The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 469–70.
    ISBN 9780521240116
    . Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  • Ives, E.W. (2004). "More, Sir John (c.1451–1530)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19183. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  • Maddison, A.R., ed. (1903). Lincolnshire Pedigrees. Vol. II. London: Harleian Society. p. 481. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  • Robison, William B. (2004). "More, Sir Christopher (b. in or before 1483, d. 1549)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/77080. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  • Shaw, William A. (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. II. London: Sherratt and Hughes. p. 52. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

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