| LC control no. | n 83152793 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617 |
| Variant(s) | Brackley, Thomas Egerton, Viscount, 1540?-1617 Egerton, Thomas, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, 1540?-1617 Egerton, Thomas, Sir, 1540?-1617 Egertonus, Thomas, Dominus de Ellismere, 1540?-1617 Ellismere, Thomas Egertonus, Dominus de, 1540?-1617 Elsemore, Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor, 1540?-1617 Elsmere, Thomas, Lord, 1540?-1617 Elsmore, Lord Chancellor (Thomas Egerton), 1540?-1617 |
| Associated country | England and Wales England |
| Located | London (England) Ellesmere (England) Dodleston (England) |
| Birth date | 1540-01-23 1540? |
| Death date | 1617-03-15 1617-05-15 |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Great Britain--Politics and government Justice, Administration of |
| Affiliation | England and Wales. Privy Council England and Wales. Court of Chancery Brasenose College (University of Oxford) |
| Profession or occupation | Statesmen Judges Nobility Cabinet officers Benefactors Lord chancellor Lord keeper |
| Found in | Patronage in late Renaissance England, 1983: p. 31, etc. (Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere; Lord Chancellor Ellesmere; b. 1540; Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere, Viscount Brackley; Baron of Ellesmere) LC data base, 2-8-84 (hdg.: Egerton, Thomas, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, 1540?-1617; usage: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere; Lord Chauncellor Elsemore; Lord Chancellor Egerton; Sir Thomas Egerton) Encycl. brit, 1983 (Brackley, Thomas Egerton, Viscount; better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere; b. c. 1540, d. 5-15-1617) DNB, 1917 (Egerton, Sir Thomas, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, 1540?-1617; Ellesmere; Egerton; under Stanley, Ferdinando: Thomas Egerton, viscount Brackley, better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere) Burke's peerage, 1967 (under 5th Earl of Derby: 1st Viscount Brackley) InU/Wing STC files (usage: Lord Chancellor Elsmore) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. The workes of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, both morrall and naturall, 1614: dedication, preliminary page 7, leaf [a]4 recto (D. Thomæ Egertono, domino de Ellismere, summo Angliæ Cancellario, Maiestatis Regiæ Angliæ a[c] Secretioribus Concilijs omni virtutum genere ac Doctrina Clarissimo, Almæ Academiæ Oxoniensis Cancellario, bonorumq[ue]; studiorum omnium Mæcenati præstantissimo) LNT files, 15 February 2015 (usages: Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England, Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Thomas Lord Elsmere, Tho. Ellesmere Canc., Lord Chancellor Elsmore; language of resources: English) Oxford dictionary of national biography, 12 February 2016 (Egerton, Thomas, first Viscount Brackley (1540-1617), lord chancellor; Ellesmere [the form of name used in the dictionary entry when describing his career after July 1603 and his reputation during and after his lifetime]; born on 23 January 1540, illegitimate son of Sir Richard Egerton, landowner, of Ridley, Cheshire; Brasenose College, Oxford (entered 1556); called to the bar 1572; on 26 June 1581, appointed solicitor-general; 1586, appointed member of the queen's council in the marches of Wales; appointed attorney general 2 June 1592; 10 April 1594, master of the rolls at court of chancery (head of the chancery administration); 6 May 1596, appointed as lord keeper; on the accession of James I, was advanced to the peerage on 21 July 1603 as Baron Ellesmere, of Ellesmere in Shropshire (where he was given a large estate); on 24 July 1603, was appointed lord chancellor, relinquishing his position as lord keeper; presided over the chancery and Star Chamber for another fourteen years, and also conducted a number of state trials; even during Elizabeth's reign, Ellesmere was as much a statesman as a judge; a confidential adviser on domestic and foreign policy; was employed on diplomatic negotiations; on 7 November 1616, already in failing health, he was created Viscount Brackley; retired four months later; died at York House, his London home, on 15 March [1617]; on 5 April he was buried at Dodleston, Cheshire, where he had kept his principal seat since the 1580s) |
| Not found in | Encycl. amer., c1975; Colliers, c1973; Debrett, 1972/73. |
| Associated language | eng |
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