Richard Goldthorpe

Richard Goldthorpe (died 16 March 1560 in York^[1]) was an English haberdasher, investor, real estate developer and politician from Yorkshire.

He was elected Lord Mayor of York in 1556 and Member of Parliament for York in 1559.^[2]

He bought Clementhorpe Priory, together with other estates in the county.^[3] In 1560, after his death, his estate was valued at £2460, considerable wealth at the time.^[4] He was buried in York Minster.^[3]

He had married Anne, the daughter of John Norman, MP of York and the widow of Richard Thornton of York, with whom he had 2 sons and 7 daughters.^[3] His daughter Anne was married to Hugh Ingram and had a son Sir Arthur Ingram.

References

1. Drake, Francis (1788). Eboracum: Or, The History and Antiquities of the City of York, from Its Origin to this Time: Together with an Account of the Ainsty, Or, County of the Same, and a Description and History of the Cathedral Church, from Its First Foundation to the Present Year. Illustrated with Seventeen Copper-plates. In Two Volumes. T. Wilson and R. Spence.
2. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Ingram, Arthur" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 12.
3. "GOLDTHORPE, Richard (d.1560), of Blake Street, York and Clementhorpe, Yorks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
4. Palliser, David Michael (1979). Tudor York:Oxford historical monographs. Oxford University Press US. p. 142. ISBN 0-19-821878-8.