Andrew Judde

Sir Andrew Judde or Judd (5 September 1492 – 1558) was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.^[1] He was knighted on 15 February 1551.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Tonbridge, the third son of John Judde, (d. 1493), gentleman, and Margaret, daughter of Valentine Chiche.^[1] His mother was the granddaughter of an earlier Lord Mayor of London, Robert Chichele, and great-niece of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, and William Chichele, Sheriff of London.^[2] He left for London and apprenticed with the Skinners Company; he was later the master of the company for four terms. He accumulated a large fortune, part of which he used to establish Tonbridge School in his home town. During his career as a merchant, he personally travelled to Russia, Spain, and the coast of Africa. He served as one of the Sheriffs of London in 1544, and was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1550.^[3] As a result of his vigorous opposition to Wyatt's Rebellion, he gained the favour of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain. He served as Mayor of the Staple of Calais.

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  Tonbridge School, founded by Andrew Judde
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  The Judd School, founded by the Skinners Company, is named after Andrew Judde

Family

Sir Andrew Judde was married three times.^[4]

• He married first, by 1523,^[5] Mary (d. 1542), daughter of Thomas Murfyn (d. 1523), an earlier Lord Mayor of London, and his first wife, Alice Marshall.^[6] By her he had four sons, two of whom survived, and a daughter:^[1]
  • John Judd
  • Richard Judd
  • Alice Judd, who married Thomas Smythe (1522–1591), collector of customs for London.^[1]

(His first wife's stepsister, Frances Murfyn (c. 1520–c. 1543), married, in 1534, Thomas Cromwell's nephew, Richard.^[7] Alice Squire (d. 1560), the widow of her brother, Edward Murfyn, married circa 1528, Edward North (later Baron North).^[8])

• He married a second time, in 1542, to Agnes (Annys), about whom nothing is known.^[1]
• His third and final marriage was in 1552 to Mary (died 1602),^[9] the wealthy widow of another skinner, Thomas Langton, and daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester. By his last wife, he had a daughter:^[1]
  • Martha Judd, who married Robert Golding in Essex.^[1] Her mother bequeathed to them the furniture of the Queen's Chamber at Latton, and silverware with the arms of Andrew Judde.^[10]

Death

Judde died on 4 September 1558 and was buried in St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London.^[1]

References

1. Slack 2008.
2. Cox 1876, p. 247.
3. Beaven 1913, p. 30.
4. Slack 2008, p. 99.
5. Drake 1873, pp. vi–viii.
6. Lambarde 1931, p. 99: Thomas Murfyn married his second wife, Elizabeth Donne, in 1519, therefore Mary must be a daughter by his first wife.
7. Hofmann 1982.
8. Hawkyard 1982.
9. F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), pp. 23–26: Will of Dame Mary Judd or Judde, Widow of Latton, Essex (P.C.C. 1602, Montague quire).
10. F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), pp. 23–24.

Bibliography

• Beaven, Alfred B. (1913). The Aldermen of the City of London. Vol. II. London: Corporation of the City of London.
• Cox, John Edmund (1876). The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. London: Tinsley Brothers.
• Drake, William R. (1873). "Appendix I". Fasciculus Mervinensis, Being Notes Historical, Genealogical, and Heraldic of the Family of Mervyn. London: Privately printed. pp. vi–viii.
• Hawkyard, A. D. K. (1982). "North, Edward (c.1504-64), of Kirtling, Cambs., the Charterhouse, Mdx. and London". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Boydell and Brewer.
• Hofmann, T.M. (1982). "Cromwell, alias Williams, Richard (by 1512-44), of London; Stepney, Mdx. and Hinchingbroke, Hunts.". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Boydell and Brewer.
• Lambarde, Fane (1931). "Sir Andrew Judde" (PDF). Archaeologia Cantiana. 43. Kent Archaeological Society: 99–102.
• Machyn, Henry (1848). Nichols, John Gough (ed.). The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant–Taylor of London, from A. D. 1550 to A. D. 1563. [Camden Society. Publications]. Vol. XLII. London, UK: Camden Society by J.B. Nichols and Son.
• Slack, Paul (3 January 2008). "Judde, Sir Andrew". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37622. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Vere-Hodge, H. S. (1953). Sir Andrew Judde, Lord Mayor of London 1550-1551, Mayor of the Staple of Calais, Six Times Master of the Skinners Company, Founder of Tonbridge School 1553. Tonbridge School Shop.
• Wadmore, J. F. (1881). "Some Account of the History and Antiquities of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, London". Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. 5. London: J. H. & J. Parker: 92−182. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
• Wriothesley, Charles (1875). Hamilton, William Douglas (ed.). A Chronicle Of England During The Reigns Of The Tudors: From A.D. 1485 To 1559 I. Vol. XI. London, UK: Camden Society.

External links

• Tonbridge School, History
• Sir Andrew Judde
• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Sir Andrew Judd" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen. Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 82.