![]() He had a share in the trials of Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher. Other preferments followed, and in 1533 he was knighted and became Solicitor General, in which capacity he was to act under Thomas Cromwell as a "lesser hammer" for the demolition of the monasteries, and to secure the operation of Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy. As Audley's career advanced in the early 1530s so did Rich's through a variety of legal posts, before he became truly prominent in the mid-1530s. By 1528 we know that Rich was in search of a patron and wrote to Cardinal Wolsey in 1529, Thomas Audley succeeded in helping him get elected as an MP for Colchester. In 1516 he entered the Middle Temple as a lawyer and at some point between 15 he was a reader at the New Inn. He may have studied at Cambridge before 1516. He had a brother, Robert, who was granted a messuage in Bucklersbury by Henry VIII on 24 February 1539, and who died in 1557. Early in 1551 he was described in an official document as 'fifty-four years of age and more', and was therefore born about 1496. 1509?), of Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, and a wife named Agnes whose surname is unknown. To him was born sometime between 14 a son whom he named Richard.Īccording to some sources, Rich was born in the London parish of St Lawrence Jewry, the second son of Richard Rich by Joan Dingley according to Carter, he was born at Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of John Rich (d. The family remained in the city, and the son of John Rich was probably also a mercer. The date of his death is given by Burke as 1469, but it would seem that he has been confounded with his son John, who was buried in the Mercer’s chapel in that year. ![]() The origin of the family of Lord Rich has been matter of some discussion.The first of the family of whom there is definite information was Richard Rich, a wealthy mercer of London and Sheriff of the City in 1441. ![]() The founder of Felsted School with its associated alms houses in Essex in 1564, he was also a persecutor and torturer of Protestants. Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during the reign of King Edward VI, of England from 1547 until January 1552.
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