Sir Thomas Lovell, KG was an English soldier and administrator, Speaker of the House of Commons, Secretary to the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
16 Facts About Thomas Lovell
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Thomas Lovell was fifth son of Sir Thomas Lovell of Barton Bendish in Norfolk, by Anne, daughter of Robert Toppe, alderman of Norwich; his family was Lancastrian in politics.
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Thomas Lovell seems to have been entered at Lincoln's Inn.
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Thomas Lovell adhered to Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and was attainted in the first parliament of Richard III.
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Thomas Lovell returned with Henry and fought at the battle of Bosworth.
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Thomas Lovell's attainder was reversed in Henry VII's first parliament.
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Thomas Lovell was treasurer of the King's and Queen's chambers.
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In 1487 Thomas Lovell sided with King Henry against Lambert Simnel, and he and his brothers fought at the battle of Stoke, where he was knighted.
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Thomas Lovell acted as an executor for Cecily, Duchess of York, Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, Henry VII, Sir Thomas Brandon, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and Sir Robert Sheffield.
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Thomas Lovell was reappointed chancellor of the exchequer, and at Michaelmas 1512 was appointed Constable of the Tower of London.
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Thomas Lovell was buried in a chantry chapel he had built at Holywell Priory, Shoreditch, a religious house of which he was regarded as a second founder.
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Thomas Lovell's portrait was formerly in a stained-glass window in Malvern Priory.
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Thomas Lovell married, first, Eleanor, daughter of Jeffrey Ratcliffe; and, secondly, Isabel, sister of Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, of Hamlake, a widow, but left no issue.
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Thomas Lovell contributed towards the building of Caius College, Cambridge, and built a gateway for Lincoln's Inn.
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Francis was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas Lovell, and had another son, Gregory Lovell, who was cofferer to the household, and received a lease of Merton Abbey, Surrey, from Elizabeth I in 1587.
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Thomas Lovell had worked with Lady Agnes Mellers who had become a rich widow in 1507 and he assisted in her wish to found what would become Nottingham High School.