William Coningsby

Sir William Coningsby, (d. c1541), Kings Justice, of Lynne (possibly Lyng, Norfolk), and Eston Hall, nr. Wallington, Hertfordshire, where he died. He is said to have been born in London.

Sir William Coningsby was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of that college. He was Lent reader at the Inner Temple in 1519, Treasurer of the same Inn, 1525-6, Reader again in 1526 and one of the Governors of the Inner Temple in 1533-4, and 1538-9. He was one of the Commissioners appointed to hear causes in Chancery in relief of Cardinal Wolsey, in 1526.

His daughter, Margaret (c1522 - 1598), married Sir Robert Alington, Knt., (1520 - 22 May 1552), son of Sir Giles Alington, of Horseheath, High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, &c.

References

* "Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press.

* "The Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1634" by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux King of Arms, in 1572, and Sir Richard St.George Knt., Clarencieux, in 1634. London, 1886, p.45. (Arms given).

* "The Visitation of Cambridge, 1575 and 1619", by Henery St.George, Richmond Herald, edited by John W. Clay, F.S.A., Harleian Society, London, 1897, p.99.

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