Paternal Family Tree: Gresham
Around 1547 Thomas Gresham was born to William Gresham [aged 35] and Beatrice Guymon.
Around 1572 Thomas Gresham [aged 25] educated at St Alban Hall, Merton College, Oxford University.
In 1579 [his father] William Gresham [aged 67] died.
On 23rd August 1587 Thomas Gresham [aged 40] and Mary Lennard [aged 38] were married.
On 23rd July 1603 King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 37] created a number Knights at the Royal Gardens Whitehall Palace:
Henry Savile 1st Baronet [aged 24], William Morgan [aged 43], George Carew, Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 46], Richard Musgrave 1st Baronet [aged 18], James Calthorpe [aged 44], Thomas Gresham [aged 56], George Fane of Burston [aged 22], Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland [aged 23], Robert Chichester [aged 25], William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 29], Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 15], Thomas Berkeley [aged 28], Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 40], William Herbert 1st Baron Powis [aged 30], Anthony Irby [aged 26], Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby in Norfolk and Arnold Lygon [aged 45].
24th July 1603 Richard Browne [aged 64].
In 1604 Thomas Gresham [aged 57] was elected MP Gatton.
In 1614 Thomas Gresham [aged 67] was elected MP Gatton.
On 7th December 1620 [his wife] Mary Lennard [aged 71] died in Titsey Place Oxted, Surrey.
In 1621 Thomas Gresham [aged 74] was elected MP Gatton.
In 1625 Thomas Gresham [aged 78] was elected MP Bletchingley.
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In 1630 Thomas Gresham [aged 83] died.
[his son] Edward Gresham was born to Thomas Gresham and Mary Lennard.
[his father] William Gresham and [his mother] Beatrice Guymon were married.
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Gresham 
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Gresham
Grandfather: John Gresham
father: William Gresham
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Ipswell
Grandmother: Mary Ipswell
mother: Beatrice Guymon