Richard Elyot
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Sir Richard Elyot, SL (died 1522) was an English landowner and judge. He was Member of Parliament for Salisbury in 1495.{{cite ODNB|id=8781|first=R. J.|last=Shoeck|title=Elyot, Richard}}
Life
The Elyot family of Coker had T. S. Eliot as a celebrated descendant. Elyot himself held estates in Wiltshire and in 1503 became serjeant-at-law and Attorney-General to the Queen consort, Elizabeth of York. Soon afterwards he was commissioned to act as Justice of Assize on the western circuit, becoming in 1513 judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Family
Elyot's first marriage was with Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas de la Mare of Aldermaston House in Berkshire and widow of Thomas D'AbridgecourtJohn Gough Nichols, The Topographer and genealogist, Volume 1 (1846), p. 198-208. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VKZWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA200 Lire] sur Google Books. of Stratfield Saye House in Hampshire. The marriage brought him a son and two daughters. The son Thomas Elyot became well known as author; and one of the daughters, MargaretMay, Stephen W (2008). "George Puttenham's Lewd and Illicit Career". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. University of Texas Press. 50 (2): 143–176. doi:10.1353/tsl.0.0001. S2CID 162082799.Whigman, Frank; Redhorn, Wayne A, eds. (2007). The Art of English Poesy: A Critical Edition. Ithaca: Cornell UP. was the mother of George Puttenham.
Elyot later married Elizabeth, widow of Richard Fettiplace of East Shefford and daughter and heiress of William Bessels of Besselsleigh.
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Category:People from Wiltshire
Category:Serjeants-at-law (England)
Category:16th-century English judges
Category:Justices of the common pleas
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