William Hussey (judge)

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birth_date = 1443
birth_place = Grey's Inn, Halborn, London, Middlesex, England
death_date = 1495-09-08
death_place = Semprington, Lincolnshire, England
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occupation = English judge
profession = Chief Justice of the King’s Bench

Sir William Hussey, or Huse, or Husee (1443 - 1495-09-08) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.

Hussey was born at Grey's Inn, Halborn, London, Middlesex, England, the son of John Hussey of Old Sleaford, and Elizabeth Noffield.cite web |url=http://www.illian.org/places/FamilySheets/d0395/F158982.html |title=Sir. William HUSSEY & Elizabeth BERKELEY |accessdate=2008-06-24 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=illian.org]

Career

He was a member of Gray's Inn, and on 1471-06-16, was appointed Attorney General, with full power of deputing clerks and officers under him in courts of record. As attorney general he conducted the impeachment of the Duke of Clarence for treason. In Trinity term of 1478 he attained the degree of serjeant-at-law, and on 1481-05-07, was appointed chief justice of the king's bench, in succession to Sir Thomas Billing, at a salary of 140 marks a year. This appointment was renewed at the accession of each of the next three kings, and under Henry VII, he was also a commissioner to decide the claims made to fill various offices at the coronation.

In the first year of this reign, he successfully protested against the king's practice of consulting the judges beforehand upon crown cases which they were subsequently to try. In June 1492, he was a commissioner to treat with the ambassadors of the King of France. He died in 1495 at Semprington, Lincolnshire, and on 24 November of that year, Sir John Fineux succeeded him as chief justice.

Family and descendants

About 1474, Hussey married Elizabeth Berkeley (c. 1453 - 1504), daughter of Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham, and Petronella Brooksby. They had four sons, and two daughters:
* Elizabeth Hussey (d. 1516-11-19); married Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
* Gilbert Hussey
* Thomas Hussey
* John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1476 - 1537); married Margaret Blount; married Anne Grey
* Robert Hussey of Linwood (1483 - 1546-05-20), from whom descend the Hussey family of Honnington, Leicestershire; married Anne Saye
* Mary Hussey (1484); married William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby

References

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NAME = Hussey, William, Sir
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
DATE OF BIRTH = 1443
PLACE OF BIRTH = Grey's Inn, Halborn, London, Middlesex, England
DATE OF DEATH = 1495-09-08
PLACE OF DEATH = Semprington, Lincolnshire, England