Bassingbourne Gawdy (died 1590)

Bassingbourne Gawdy (died 1590), of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English politician.

The second son of Thomas Gawdy (d.1556) of Shottesham and Redenhall, Norfolk, he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1545,[1] and trained in the law at the Inner Temple.

In 1557 Bassingbourne was investigated for selling wood at Middleton Hall.[2] On 26 September 1558 Gawdy married Anne Wotten.[3][4][5] Through Anne Wotten Bassingbourne obtained property in Hawling.

He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk from c. 1573 and for Norfolk from c. 1583, and was High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1578–79.[6]

In 1584, he was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye, Suffolk.

Bassingbourne’s mother was his father’s first wife, Anne, daughter and coheiress of John Bassingbourne of Woodhall, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.[6]

He married twice: firstly as aforementioned Anne, the daughter of John Wootton of Tuddenham, Norfolk, and the widow of Henry Reppes, with whom he had two sons and secondly Margaret, the daughter of Eustace Sulyard, and widow of Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex. He was succeeded by his son Bassingbourne Gawdy who would be knighted as Sir Bassingbourne in 1597.

References
  1. "Gawdy, Bassingborne (GWDY545B)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Gowdy, Mahlon Myron (1919). A Family History Comprising the Surnames of Gade-Gadie--Gaudie--Gawdie--Gawdy--Gowdy--Goudy-Goudey--Gowdey--Gauden--Gaudern--and the Variant Forms, from A. D. 800 to A. D. 1919 Compiled from Authentic Public and Private Records Embracing a Compendium of Family History, Genealogy and Biography Covering a Period of Eight Hundred Years. Supplemented by an Appendix of Gleanings Illustrated with Portraits, Views of Family Seats. Journal Press.
  3. H. L. Meakin, The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2013), pp. 32-3, has the visit at Redgrave.
  4. John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), pp. 525-6.
  5. John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 526, from BL MS 4173.
  6. "GAWDY, Bassingbourne I (d.1590), of West Harling, Norf. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 7 December 2021.


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