Thomas Southwell (1598-1643) was an English landowner.
He was a son of Robert Southwell (died 1598) of Woodrising, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Howard, eldest daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth.
He held the office of Vice-Admiral of Yarmouth.
He sold the family estates to Francis Crane.
Thomas Southwell died in 1643.[1]
Marriages, infidelity, and children
Southwell married Margaret Fuller on 27 March 1618. Robert Herrick wrote an Epithalamium.[2] Their children included:
- Elizabeth Southwell (d. 1619), buried at Burnham Overy
- Sarah Southwell, who married William Peacock
- Elizabeth Southwell, who married John Middleton of Hangleton, Sussex
- Frances Southwell, who married William Bemboe
- Penelope Southwell, who married William Levet of Petworth
He came to live apart from his first wife in the company of Mary Eden, the daughter of a Doctor of Laws (presumably Thomas Eden LL.D. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge). Margaret Southwell complained in 1634 about his adultery and relationship with her sister.[3] He married Margaret Eden in 1637, they had no children.
References
- ^ Francis Blomefield & Charles Parkin, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, vol. 5 (Lynn, 1775). p. 1238.
- ^ Tom Cain & Ruth Connolly, The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick, vol. 2 (Oxford, 2013), pp. 52.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1635-1636 (London, 1866), p. 212.
