Clement Higham

The Right Honourable Sir Clement Heigham
Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 1554–1555
Monarch	Queen Mary I
Preceded by	Robert Broke
Succeeded by	Sir William Cordell
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Died	9 March 1571
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Anne Waldegrave
Relations	grandson in law of Sir Robert Drury
Profession	Barrister

Sir Clement Higham, Knight, of Barrow Hall, Suffolk, (died 9 March 1571), was a Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons (1554–1555), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and a Privy Councillor to Queen Mary. He was also a barrister-at-law and a Reader and Governor of Lincoln's Inn in London.

He married (after 1528) Anne (1506–1590), daughter of Sir George Waldegrave (1483–1528) of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, by his wife Anne (d.1572), daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Lord of the Manors of Thurston, and Hawstead, Suffolk, (1455–1536). (See also Waldegrave family).

Sir Clement Higham was buried in the parish church at Barrow, Suffolk, where there is an altar tomb in the chancel with effigy brasses, arms, and long eulogistic inscription, and his heraldic coat of arms is displayed in a window at Lincoln's Inn.

References

• The Visitation of Suffolk 1561, by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms. Transcribed and edited by Joan Corder, F.S.A., London, 1984 volume 2, pps: 396-7.

Legal offices
Preceded by David Brooke	Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1558–1559	Succeeded by Sir Edward Saunders

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Name	Higham, Clement
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Date of death	9 March 1571
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