Sir Thomas Lucy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585.
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16 Facts About Thomas Lucy
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Thomas Lucy was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespeare.
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Thomas Lucy was the eldest son and heir of William Lucy of Charlecote near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and Anne Fermer, the daughter of Richard Fermer of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.
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On his father's death, Thomas Lucy inherited Sherborne and Hampton Thomas Lucy in addition to the house of Charlecote Park, which was rebuilt for him in red brick by John of Padua, known as John Thorpe, about 1558.
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Thomas Lucy was a loyal supporter of Queen Elizabeth and an ardent Protestant.
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Thomas Lucy was re-elected MP for Warwickshire in 1585, and in 1586 he became high sheriff of the county.
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Thomas Lucy often appeared at Stratford-upon-Avon as justice of the peace and as commissioner of musters for the county.
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Thomas Lucy was at the time noted for his effort in preservation of game, for which he had introduced a bill into Parliament in 1585.
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Thomas Lucy is portrayed as a "mildly pretentious" figure, "longing for the good old days when classes knew their place".
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Edmond Malone wrote that Thomas Lucy did not own a park at this time and that it would have been illegal to keep deer outside a licensed deer park.
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Samuel Schoenbaum, however, noted that Thomas Lucy had a "free warren", which would have supported rabbits, hares, pheasants and other birds, along with larger animals—which could have included roe-deer.
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Thomas Lucy goes on, "his revenge is so great that he [Lucy] is his Justice Clodpate [i.
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The fact that the evidence for the alleged parody of Thomas Lucy is confined to the Merry Wives suggests that the character was not invented with Thomas Lucy in mind.
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Certainly "Thomas Lucy was, in physical form, social condition and personality, nothing like Shallow" as described in Henry IV, Part 2.
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Thomas Lucy's was the mother of the diplomat Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar.
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