William Whorwood

William Whorwood

Sir William Whorwood (c.1500-1545) [His elder brother John was aged 40 in 1534. ] was Solicitor General from 1536 to 1540 and then Attorney General under Henry VIII until his death.

He was a younger son of John Whorwood, one of a family of minor gentry, who had long lived at Compton in Kinver. He bought from the king the manor of Kinver with Stourton Castle in 1537 and subsequently the rectory impropriate of Kinver, which remained in the family until 1672. ["Victoria County History, Staffordshire" XX, pp. 120-33. ] He also acquired various estates elsewhere.

He and his wife Margaret (who afterwards married William Shelton) had two daughters:
*Anne (died 1552) married Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, but the marriage was childless. Her share of her father's estates passed to Thomas Whorwood, William's great nephew.
*Margaret married Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton CourtA partition was made of the family estates in 1578, between Thomas Throckmorton and Thomas Whorwood.

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