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{{short description|Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chief Justice}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | honorific-prefix = Sir | name = John Popham | image = SirJohnPopham.jpg | caption = Sir John Popham (1531β1607), Lord Chief Justice. 1602 portrait by unknown artist, collection of Harvard Law School | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 1531 | birth_place = [[Huntworth]], [[North Petherton]], [[Somerset]] | death_date = 10 October {{Death year and age|1607|1531}} | death_place = [[Wellington, Somerset]] | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Speaker of the House of Commons, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Amy Adams (''alias'' Games)<ref name="History of Parliament">History of Parliament</ref> | partner = | children = | parents = Alexander Popham, Jane Stradling | relatives = | signature = John Popham signature.png | website = | footnotes = }} {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = JohnPophamLordChiefJustice.jpg | width1 = 165 | alt1 = | caption1 = | image2 = JohnPophamLordChiefJusticeOilPainting.jpg | width2 = 134 | alt2 = | caption2 = | footer = ''Sr. John Popham knight Lorde Cheife Justice of England & of her Maj. most honorable Privie Counsell''. Sir John Popham (1531β1607), Lord Chief Justice. '''Left''': Copy by [[George Perfect Harding]] (1781β1853) of lost original by unknown artist. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 2405; '''right''' another existing version, possibly original or further copy from same source }} {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = PophamArmorials.png | width1 = 150 | alt1 = | caption1 = | image2 = PophamArms 1607 WellingtonChurch Somerset.PNG | width2 = 138 | alt2 = | caption2 = | footer = Arms of Popham: ''Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabossed or''; '''right''': detail from monument to Sir John Popham in Wellington Church, showing a ''crescent sable'' for [[Difference (heraldry)|difference]] with crest: ''A stag's head and neck erased proper'' }} '''Sir John Popham''' (c. 1531 β 10 June 1607){{citation needed|date=October 2020}} of [[Wellington, Somerset]], was [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] (1580 to 1583), [[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney General]] (1581 to 1592) and [[Lord Chief Justice]] of England (1592 to 1607). ==Origins== [[File:PophamImpalingStradling 1588Monument ColytonChurch Devon.PNG|thumb|Escutcheon in the Pole Chapel of [[Colyton, Devon|Colyton]] Church, Devon, showing arms of Popham impaling Stradling (''Paly of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three mullets or''), representing the marriage of Sir John Popham's parents]] Popham was born in 1531 at [[Huntworth]] in the parish of [[North Petherton]], near [[Bridgwater]], in [[Somerset]], the second son of Alexander Popham (c. 1504 β 1556) of Huntworth, twice MP for [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater]] in 1545 and 1547, by his wife Jane Stradling, a daughter of Sir Edward Stradling (died 1535) of [[St Donat's Castle]], Glamorgan;<ref>Skinner, A. J. P., Armory on Pole Monument in Colyton Church, published in Devon Notes & Queries, Vol. 9, Jan. 1916 β Oct. 1917.</ref> one of Jane's brothers is [[Thomas Stradling (MP)|Thomas Stradling]]. St Donat's Castle situated on the south coast of Glamorgan was a short sail across the [[Bristol Channel]] into the inland port of Bridgwater on the [[River Parret]]. The Popham family had held the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Huntworth since the 13th century when Sir Hugh de Popham ([[tempore]] [[Edward I]]) (a younger son of the Popham family of the manor of [[Popham, Hampshire]]) married Joan de Kentisbury, daughter and heiress of Sir Stephen de Kentisbury of Huntworth.<ref>Burke's, 1837.</ref> His nephews included [[George Popham]], founder of [[Popham Colony]] (of which Sir John was one of the principal financial backers) and Sir [[William Pole (antiquary)|William Pole]] (1561β1635), the historian of Devon. ==Education== He was educated at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he read classics and divinity, and entered the [[Middle Temple]] as a law student. ==Career== He served as an [[Member of parliament|MP]] for [[Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)|Lyme Regis]] in 1558 and for [[Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol]] in 1571 and 1572 and was a [[Justice of the Peace]] in Somerset. He served in the honourable position of Recorder of Bridgwater and of Bristol.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir John Popham|url=http://www.nthpetherton.co.uk/popham.htm|publisher=North Petherton|access-date=24 August 2011}}</ref> He was promoted to serjeant-at-law in 1578 and appointed [[Solicitor General for England and Wales|Solicitor-General]] in 1579. In 1581 he was elected [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] and later that year was appointed [[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney-General]]. In 1592 following the death of Sir [[Christopher Wray (English judge)|Christopher Wray]], he was appointed [[Chief Justice of the King's Bench|Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench]], which position he retained until his death. Popham is credited with maintaining the stability of the British State, and for being one of the "real colonisers" of the British Empire; hosting two [[Wabanaki Confederacy|Wabanaki]] tribesmen kidnapped on the [[Maine]] coast in 1605, subsequently funding and orchestrating the aborted [[Popham Colony]] at the mouth of the [[Kennebec River]], Maine (1607β1608). Popham became a very wealthy man, and amongst the many estates he owned was [[Publow]] in Somerset,<ref>Janes, Rowland (2003) Pensford, Publow and Woollard: A Topographical History. Biografix. {{ISBN|0-9545125-0-2}}.</ref> [[Littlecote House|Littlecote]] in [[Wiltshire]], and [[Hemyock]] Castle in [[Devon]]. In [[Peter Blundell]]'s will<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grigg|first1=E.|title=Donations of Peter Blundell: Founder and Other Benefactors to the Free Grammar School at Tiverton|date=1792|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_0GAAAAQAAJ&q=donations+of+peter+blundell}}</ref> of 1599 Popham was asked to establish a [[Grammar school#Early grammar schools|free grammar school]] in the town of [[Tiverton, Devon|Tiverton]] in Devon, which resulted in his founding of [[Blundell's School]] which opened in 1604 and still exists to this day. ==Famous trials== In 1595 Popham presided over the trial of the [[Jesuit]] [[Robert Southwell (Jesuit)|Robert Southwell]] and passed a sentence of death by [[hanging, drawing and quartering]]. He also presided over the trials of Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] (1603) and the conspirators of the [[Gunpowder Plot]], including [[Guy Fawkes]] (1606). He was also involved in the trial at [[Fotheringhay Castle]] of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] (1587) which resulted in her execution. While working as the messenger to the Queen, Popham was imprisoned by [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]] with his henchman. Ever stoic, Popham replied that at his age, death would be "but cutting off a few years". However, he was rescued and rowed to safety by Sir [[Ferdinando Gorges]] (1565β1647). He was noted for his severity towards thieves, and for strict enforcement of the Penal Laws. ==Marriage and children== [[File:SirJohnPopham Died1607 AndWife WellingtonChurch Somerset.JPG|thumb|200px|Effigies of Sir John Popham and his wife Amy Adams, Wellington Church]] John Popham married Amy Adams<ref name="History of Parliament">History of Parliament</ref> (''alias'' Games), daughter and heiress of Hugh (''alias'' Howel) Adams (''alias'' Games) of Castleton, [[Glamorgan]], a fortified [[manor house]] 800 metres north-east of the village of [[St Athan]]. Castleton was from the early 12th century the [[caput]] of the lordship of St Athan established by the Nerber family, and held from the overlords the Earls of Gloucester, comprising 4 [[knight's fee]]s.<ref>''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan'', Volume 3, Part 1b, ''Medieval Secular Monuments: The Later Castles from 1217 to the Present'', published by [[Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales]], Landudno, 2000, pp. 468β471 [https://books.google.com/books?id=mhnYtVAUhQEC&dq=castleton+st+athans&pg=PA468]</ref> John de Nerber was the last in the line, and died in the early 16th century. In 1528, "by corrupt dealings",<ref>[[G. T. Clark|Clark, G. T.]], Arch. Camb., 1864, pp. 287β8, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> Castleton was acquired by Howel Adams. In 1538 [[John Leland (antiquary)|Leland]] (died 1552) recorded: ''"Castleton, a manor place on a hille ascending from the ripe.<ref>Ripe, river bank.</ref> And late it (be)longgid to one Hugh Adam, a man of mene lands whos doughter is now heir of it"''.<ref>Leland, ''Itinerary'', section on Wales, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> By his marriage Popham inherited Castleton and sold it to his maternal relative Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donat's Castle.<ref>Lewis, ''Breviat'', p. 115, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> By his wife he had issue one son and six daughters including: *Sir [[Francis Popham (1573β1644)|Francis Popham]] (c. 1573 β 1644), only son, and heir, MP, of Wellington, Somerset and [[Littlecote House|Littlecote]], Wiltshire, who married Anne Gardiner Dudley and was the father of [[Edward Popham]] (1610β1651), General-at-Sea, and of Colonel [[Alexander Popham]] (1605β1669), JP, MP, who fought for the Parliamentarians during the Civil War and had a garrison stationed at [[Littlecote House]]. Another of his descendants was Admiral Sir [[Home Riggs Popham]] (1762β1820), who developed the Signal Code adopted by the Navy in 1803. *Penelope Popham; *Elinor Popham; married Sir Roger Warre of Hestercombe (d. 1616). *Elizabeth Popham (d.1637), wife of Sir Richard Champernowne (1558β1622), [[lord of the manor]] of [[Modbury]] in Devon, [[Sheriff of Devon]] in 1591, created a [[knight of the Bath]] in 1599.<ref>[[John Lambrick Vivian|Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the [[Heraldic visitation|Heralds' Visitations]] of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.165</ref> *Mary Popham; *Amy Popham. ==Residences== ===Wellington House, Somerset=== [[File:Montacute House East Front - geograph.org.uk - 851610.jpg|thumb|[[Montacute House]], east front, comparable in size<ref name="Hasler">Hasler</ref> and date to Wellington House built by Sir John Popham and destroyed in 1645]] As his main residence he built Wellington House, a "large and stately mansion"<ref name=burke198>Burke, 1837, p. 198.</ref> in the town of [[Wellington, Somerset]], "only slightly smaller than [[Montacute House|Montacute]]"<ref name="Hasler"/> also in Somerset (built in about 1598 by Sir [[Edward Phelips (speaker)|Edward Phelips]], [[Master of the Rolls]] and the prosecutor during the trial of the [[Gunpowder Plot]]ters). It was destroyed during the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] (1642β1651), having been ''"obtained by strategem by one Bovet of [[Taunton]] who converted it into a garrison for the use of the Parliament army and defended it for a considerable time against Sir [[Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet|Richard Grenville]] who came to its rescue in which contest it was so battered that it was never afterward deemed worthy repairing".''<ref name=burke198/> In March 1645 the Royalist commander Grenville was ordered to march into Somersetshire and assist in the siege of [[Taunton]]. While inspecting the fortifications of "Wellington House" he was severely wounded, and obliged for a time to resign the command of his forces to Sir John Berkeley.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Grenville, Richard (1600-1658) |volume= 23 |last= Firth |first= Charles |author-link= Charles Firth (historian) |pages= 124-127 |quote= see para 2 lines 17-18 |year= |short=1}}</ref> Wellington had probably been supplying Blake with necessaries for some time, and Colonel Bovet, a very ardent Parliamentarian, got possession of Popham's house and made it a stronghold for his party. So against Wellington Grenville directed the Royalist force and levelled Popham's house almost to the ground, himself being so severely injured that the leadership of his men had to be transferred to Sir John Barkley. The following document dated 19 October 1650<ref>Historical MSS. Commission, Seventh Report.</ref> was addressed to Justices of Peace of Somerset:<ref>Quoted from ''The Materials for the History of the Town of Wellington, Co. Somerset,'' pp. 87β8 [http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Materials-for-the-History-of-the-Town-of-Wellington-Co-Somerset/307108/109] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004203140/http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Materials-for-the-History-of-the-Town-of-Wellington-Co-Somerset/307108/109|date=4 October 2015}}</ref> :"Anne Martyn of Wellington, widdowe, being in the howse of the Honourable Alexander Popham with her family, att the seige thereof by the late Kinge's forces, sustayned greate losses of goodes and cattle, viz., several kine, one heifer, tenne young cattle, three calves, five colts, a mare and a horse, forty sheepe, five bedds with their furniture, bacon, butter, and cheese, wool, lynnen, corne of all sorts, pewter, brasse, and other moveable goodes, valued in all att the summe of ... hundred and threescore and fifteen poundes, besides the summe of twenty and two poundes in ready money; and that her eldest sonne was killed in the said howse by the said late Kynges forces. Signed Rich. Bouell, Alexander Popham, Edw. Popham, John Pyne."<ref>Further reading: Seaby, W.A., ''Wellington House, the Elizabethan Mansion of Sir John Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice'', Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1952 (booklet/offprint); originally published in: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Vol. XCVII, 1952, pp. 153β162.</ref> ===Littlecote House, Berkshire=== [[File:Littlecote House 01.jpg|thumb|Littlecote House, south front added by Sir John Popham after 1589. His armorials sculpted in stone survive above the front door]] Popham acquired the [[Reversion (law)|reversion]] of the estate of [[Littlecote House|Littlecote]] in Berkshire (today in Wiltshire) from [[William Darrell of Littlecote|William Darrell]] (1539β1589), MP, and following the latter's death in 1589 duly became its owner. The historian [[John Aubrey]] (1626β1697) stated that Popham had acquired Littlecote as a bribe for having obtained a ''[[nolle prosequi]]'' in favour of the murderer William "Wild" Darrell,<ref>Hasler, History of Parliament.</ref> which account Rice (2005) deemed "not accurate" and "A story of passion, murder and confusion".<ref>Rice, p. 83, with quote of Aubrey's text.</ref> Popham expanded the house and added a south wing in red-brick, which structure survives today. His armorials survive above the south porch.<ref>[http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/engforum/index.php?showtopic=4749 Rice, p. 91; see image]</ref> Following the destruction of Wellington House in the Civil War, Littlecote became the principal seat of his descendants, the last of whom in the male line was Francis Popham (died 1779), of Littlecote and [[Hunstrete]], Somerset, who died childless. He bequeathed his estates to his wife Dorothy (nΓ©e Hutton) who in turn left them to "Francis Popham, the reputed son of my late husband" but only as a tenant for life. This [[illegitimate]] son died in 1804 when, under the terms of Dorothy's will, the estates reverted to her husband's nephew Edward William Leyborne (born 1764), who in 1805 in accordance with the terms of the bequest assumed by royal licence the additional surname and arms of Popham. The Leyborne Popham family sold Littlecote in 1929 to [[Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet|Sir Ernest Wills]],<ref name="vch">{{cite web |title=Chilton Foliat A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 16, Kinwardstone Hundred. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol16/pp88-109 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History, 1999 |access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> and moved to their other seat at Hunstrete House, Pensford, Somerset.<ref>Burke's, 1937, p. 1831.</ref> ==Death and burial== Popham died on 10 June 1607 at [[Wellington, Somerset|Wellington]], [[Somerset]]. He was buried in the [[Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington]], where his large free-standing monument survives. ==Monument, Wellington Church== [[File:SirJohnPopham Died1607 WellingtonChurch Somerset.PNG|thumb|Monument to Sir John Popham in Wellington Church, viewed from south]] At the east end of the north aisle of St John the Baptist's Church in Wellington, survives the 18-foot-high monument with effigies of Sir John Popham and his family. As described by [[John Collinson (historian)|Collinson]] (died 1793) in 1791 it was situated in the south aisle chapel, from which it has been moved to its present position, but retaining the same orientation. Collinson described the monument as follows:<ref>Collinson, vol. 2, p. 483.</ref> :"In the chapel on the south side of the church is a magnificent tomb, surrounded with a pallisado of wood and iron, on the table of which lie the effigies of Sir John Popham, and that of his lady. He is dressed in his judges robes, chain, and small square black cap; and placed with his head towards the west. On the lower basement, at the head and feet, are four other smaller figures of two men and two women, kneeling face to face. On the north side of the same basement are five boys and eight girls, dressed in black, kneeling in a row. And on the south side are nine women kneeling in the fame manner. Over Sir John and his lady is a superb arched canopy, ornamented with the family arms, roses, paintings, and obelisks; the whole supported by eight round columns of black marble, five feet high, with Corinthian capitals green and gilt". The two male and female couples kneeling opposite each other separated by a [[prie-dieu]], shown at each end of the monument, are believed to represent his 34-year-old son Sir Francis Popham and the latter's wife (east-end) and his parents, represented as a middle-aged couple (west-end). The nine female kneeling figures on the south side, all facing westward, are believed to represent Sir John Popham's six daughters with three ladies maids, the latter three figures kneeling behind the daughters and wearing plain not lace ruffs. The kneeling figures on the north side are believed to represent the five sons (facing westwards) and eight daughters (facing eastwards) of Sir Francis Popham, the son of Sir John Popham.<ref>Identifications per information sheet in church, which however misidentifies the middle-aged man kneeling at the west-end as Sir Francis Popham (in 1607 only 34 years old) rather than as Alexander Popham, Sir John's father.</ref> Inscribed on a stone tablet on the west side of the [[entablature]] is the following text: :''Sr John Popham Knighte and Lord Chief Justice of England and of the Honorable Privie Councell to Queene Elizabeth and after to King James, aged 76, died the 10th of June, 1607 and is here interred.''<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/panr/3769299155/ Image of Wellington monument at]</ref> ==Heraldry== [[File:PophamQuarterings 1607 WellingtonChurch Somerset.PNG|thumb|150px|Popham arms of 9 [[Quartering (heraldry)|quarters]], monument to Sir John Popham, Wellington Church]] A heraldic escutcheon is shown on the north side of the monument to Sir John Popham in Wellington Church of nine [[Quartering (heraldry)|quarters]] as follows: *1: ''Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabossed or'' (Popham), with a crescent sable for [[Difference (heraldry)|difference]] *2: ''Sable, three [[Roundel (heraldry)|plates]]'' (Clark,<ref>As follows Popham in quartered arms of [[Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer]] Sr. (1852β1903), per Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, ''Armorial Families'', 6th Edition, 1910, pp. 582β583 [http://www.mocavo.com/Armorial-Families-a-Directory-of-Gentlemen-of-Coat-Armour/960796/558][http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~floyer/heraldry.htm]. "Clark of Somersetshire", per Guillim's ''Display of Heraldry'' (Kent, Samuel, ''The Banner Display'd: or, An Abridgment of Guillim'', Vol.2, London, 1728, p. 617 [[iarchive:bannerdisplaydo00unkngoog/page/n62|<!-- quote=clark somerset sable three plates. -->]]</ref> for Joan Clark, wife of Gilbert de Popham (died 1250) of Popham, Hampshire, and daughter of Robert Clark, feoffee of the manor of [[Popham, Hampshire|Popham]].<ref>Burke's, 1937, p. 1830.</ref> According to the ''[[Victoria County History]] of Hampshire'' (1908) Gilbert de Popham (died 1251) acquired Popham from "Thurstan the Clerk" by unknown means. An earlier Thurstan was clerk to William de Pont de l'Arche, and was evidently the same Thurstan who was [[Sheriff of Hampshire]] in 1155 and who obtained confirmation from the Empress Maud of all his land of Popham which he had held at the death of Henry I<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42011 Victoria County History, Volume 3: Hampshire, 1908, Parishes: Popham, pp. 397β399]</ref>) *3: ''Gules, a pair of wings in lure argent overall a bend azure'' (Seymour? Reigny?) *4: ''Per pale azure and gules three lions rampant argent'' (Herbert, [[Earl of Pembroke]]) *5: ''Argent, a fess between three martlets sable'', with a ''crescent sable'' for [[Cadency|difference]] (Edmondes,<ref>As arms for Francis Edmonds, MA, Fellow of Winchester, shown in Hall of New College, Oxford, per Wood, Anthony, Appendix to ''History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford'', 1790, p. 262 [https://books.google.com/books?id=vrU8AAAAYAAJ&dq=Argent%2C+a+fess+between+three+martlets+sable+edmonds&pg=PA262]</ref> for Agnes Edmondes, daughter and heiress of William Edmondes and wife of William Popham (died 1464) of Huntworth) *6: ''Gules, on a bend argent three escallops sable'' (Knoell, Knolle, Knowles, etc., for Isabel Knolle daughter and heiress of Thomas Knolle<ref>Burke, 1837.</ref> and wife of John Popham (died 1536) of Huntworth, grandfather of Sir John Popham (died 1607), as shown on the monument to Katherine Popham (died 1588), mother of Sir [[William Pole (antiquary)|William Pole]] (died 1635), in Colyton Church, Devon.<ref name=devonnotes>Skinner, A. J. P., Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.IX, Jan 1916-Oct 1917.</ref> *7: ''Sable, three fishes palewise tails uppermost argent'' (Unknown family, apparently a Knolle heiress) *8: ''Argent, a saltire gules between four eagles displayed azure'' (Hampden, an heiress of Knolle, as shown on monument to Katherine Popham (died 1588), mother of Sir William Pole, in Colyton Church, Devon.<ref name=devonnotes/> *9: ''Per pale argent and gules overall a bend azure'' (?) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== {{EB1911 poster|Popham, Sir John}} *{{cite book |last=Popham |first=Frederick William |title=A West Country Family: The Pophams since 1150 |publisher=privately printed |year=1976}} *{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?mkey=mw05093 |title=Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery|access-date=5 August 2016}} *{{cite book |title=The Life And Achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531β1607 |first=Douglas Walthew |last=Rice |year=2005 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |isbn=0-8386-4060-5}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=m67hSNxB2s0C&dq=john+popham+amy+games&pg=PA21] *[[John Collinson (died 1793)|Collinson, John]], ''History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset'', Vol.2, Bath, 1791, pp. 196β201, pedigree of Popham [https://books.google.com/books?id=KxdVAAAAcAAJ&dq=gatchell+clawsey&pg=PA197] *Hasler, P. W., biography of ''Popham, John (c. 1532 β 1607), of Wellington, Som.'', published in [[History of Parliament]]: House of Commons 1558β1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/popham-john-1532-1607] *[[John Burke (genealogist)| Burke, John]], ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'', Vol.2, London, 1837, pp. 196β201, pedigree of Popham [https://books.google.com/books?id=KxdVAAAAcAAJ&dq=gatchell+clawsey&pg=PA197] *[[John Burke (genealogist)|Burke's]] Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1830β1, pedigree of ''Leyborne Popham of Hunstrete late of Littlecote'' {{S-start}} {{s-legal}} {{Succession box| title=[[Lord Chief Justice]] | before = [[Christopher Wray (English judge)|Sir Christopher Wray]] | after = [[Thomas Fleming (judge)|Sir Thomas Fleming]] | years = 1592β1607}} {{S-hon}} {{Succession box| title=[[Custos Rotulorum of Somerset]] | before=[[Amias Paulet|Sir Amias Paulet]] | years=bef. 1594 β 1607 | after=[[Edward Phelips (speaker)|Sir Edward Phelips]]}} {{S-off}} {{Succession box| title=[[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] | before=[[Robert Bell (speaker)|Sir Robert Bell]] | after=[[John Puckering|Sir John Puckering]]| years=1580β1583}} {{S-end}} {{Speaker of the British House of Commons}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Popham, John}} [[Category:1530s births]] [[Category:1607 deaths]] [[Category:17th-century English judges]] [[Category:People from Sedgemoor (district)]] [[Category:Speakers of the House of Commons of England]] [[Category:Lord chief justices of England and Wales]] [[Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford]] [[Category:Attorneys general for England and Wales]] [[Category:Regicides of Mary, Queen of Scots]] [[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]] [[Category:English MPs 1559]] [[Category:English MPs 1571]] [[Category:English MPs 1572β1583]] [[Category:People from pre-statehood Maine]] [[Category:Popham family|John]] [[Category:16th-century English judges]] [[Category:Serjeants-at-law (England)]] [[Category:Knights Bachelor]] [[Category:English justices of the peace]] [[Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lyme Regis]]
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