Foster: fellow Merton Coll. 1553, B.A. 11 Oct., 1553, M.A. 1 July, 1557, D.C.L. supd. 10 March, 1565-6; of Pirford, Surrey, admitted to Gray's Inn 1592; Latin secretary to the Queen 1568, after the death of Roger Ascham; canon of Wells 1569, dean of Carlisle 1578, and chancellor of the order of the garter, a commissioner on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, M.P. East Looe 1571, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1572-83, Winchester 1584-5, 1586-7, Dorset 1588-9, and Surrey 1593; knighted 1592, and a privy councillor; buried in St. Paul's cathedral 1595; father of Francis. See Fasti, i. 152; O.H.S. iv. 262; Lansdowne MS, 982, f. 249.