Christopher Yelverton
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Sir Christopher Yelverton (1536 – 1612), Judge and speaker of the House of Commons
Knight of the Bath 23 July 1603, matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1550, MP for Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1563, recorder of Northampton from 1568-1599, JP for Northamptonshire from about 1573, called to the bar, and elected treasurer of Gray's Inn 1579 and 1585, Reader 1574 and 1584, serjeant-at-law in 1589, speaker of the House of Commons 1597, queen's serjeant from 1598-1602, judge of the court of Queen's/King's Bench from 1602-1612
He married Margaret Catesby, the daughter of Thomas Catesby of Whiston, Northamptonshire, two sons four daughters
[edit] References
David Ibbetson, ‘Yelverton, Sir Christopher (1536/7–1612)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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