Roger Woodhouse Explained

Roger Woodhouse (– 1588), of Kimberley, Norfolk, was an English politician.

He was a Member of parliament (MP) of the Parliament of England for Aldeburgh, for Norfolk in 1572 and for Thetford in 1586.^[1]

Roger Woodhouse was the eldest son of Thomas Woodhouse. His father Thomas was present at the battle of Pinkie in September 1547, and some sources suggest his father was killed there in 1547 at Musselburgh.^[2] His mother was Madge Shelton, possible mistress of Henry VIII, the daughter Sir John Shelton of Shelton and first cousin of Anne Boleyn.

His sister Elizabeth Woodhouse (d. 1608), was the Mistress Jones who was Mother of the Maids. In 1588 she married Thomas Jones, and in 1588–1591 she was Mother of the Maids.^{[3] [4] [5]}

His paternal grandparents were Sir Roger Woodhouse or Wodehouse (d. 1560) and Elizabeth Radcliffe,^[6] the daughter of Sir Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton.

He married Mary, daughter of John Corbet of Sprowston, and had two sons, including Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet, and one daughter.

Notes and References

1. Web site: WOODHOUSE, Roger (c.1541-88), of Kimberley, Norf. - History of Parliament Online. Historyofparliamentonline.org. 17 March 2019.
2. Barbara Harris, 'A rhetoric of requests: genre and linguistic scripts in Elizabethan women's suitors' letters', James Daybell, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 (Routledge, 2000): G. Dashwood, Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, vol. 1 (Norwich, 1878), p. 104.
3. Book: Colthorpe, Marion E. . Court: Women at Court; Royal Household . Folger Shakespeare Library . 23.
4. Web site: Colthorpe . Marion E. . The Elizabethan Court Day by Day - Folgerpedia . 2023-10-06 . folgerpedia.folger.edu.
5. Book: Emerson, Kathy Lynn . A Who's Who of Tudor Women . 2020-10-11 . Kathy Lynn Emerson . Entry for ‘Elizabeth Woodhouse (d. 1608)’ . English.
6. G. Dashwood, Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, vol. 1 (Norwich, 1878), p. 104.