12 Facts About Stephen Soame

One of his younger brothers, Robert Stephen Soame, became Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Stephen Soame was originally a member of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, into which he was apprenticed in the ward of Cheap in the City of London.

Stephen Soame married, during the 1570s, Anne, daughter of the London Haberdasher William Stone and his wife Marye Gray, daughter of John Gray of Barley, Hertfordshire.

Stephen Soame served as Sheriff of London in 1589, becoming alderman for Cheap ward in the same year.

Stephen Soame was elected a Member of Parliament for the City of London in 1601.

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Stephen Soame restored and reglazed the great north window of St Paul's Cathedral, and restored the ceiling of Grocers' Hall.

Stephen Soame made several provisions in his will for regular distributions of food to the poor, and to prisoners in London.

Stephen Soame built a free school at Little Thurlow with maintenance for a master and usher, for the benefit of children to be taught English and Latin reading and cipher in preparation for admission to the universities: if the numbers and ages of the students warranted, he made provision for part of the church of Little Thurlow to be used as an additional schoolroom, a responsibility which he entrusted to his widow in his will.

In 1595 Stephen Soame brought a Chancery suit against Wisbicke to protect his title as lord of the manor.

The manor at Hundon to which Hundon church was attached, both demised in Stephen Soame's will, was part of those former possessions of Stoke-by-Clare College which had been granted to Sir John Cheke in 1548.

Stephen Soame was buried in the church at Little Thurlow, and gave instructions that no announcement of his funeral was to be made in London.

Stephen Soame married Anne Stone, daughter of William Stone, haberdasher of London, and his wife Marye Gray, daughter of John Gray of Barley, Hertfordshire.