Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet
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Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet (died 30 October 1623), was an English baronet, soldier and Member of Parliament.
Wodehouse was the son of Sir Roger Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, and Mary Corbet, daughter of John Corbet, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (1575), and trained in the law at Lincoln's Inn (1580).[1]
He sat as Member of Parliament for
Wodehouse married Grizell Yelverton, daughter of William Yelverton, on 22 December 1582. She was the widow of Thomas Lestrange of Hunstanton,[1] the grandson of Sir Nicholas le Strange.[3] Sir Philip died on 30 October 1623 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Thomas. Lady Wodehouse died in August 1635.
He was an ancestor of the British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. A women's jacket in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is thought to have belonged to Grizell Wodehouse.[4]
References
- ^ a b "WOODHOUSE, Philip (d.1623), of Kimberley, Norf. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ Thomas Birch, Memorials of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 2 (London, 1754), p. 50.
- ^ Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library. p. 272.
- ^ "Wodehouse Jacket". Textile Research Centre. Retrieved 25 November 2023.