William Soame

William Soame (1579–1655) was a prominent English merchant, landowner and politician. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1633 and a committeeman on one of the Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers.[1]

He was the eldest son of Stephen Soame (c. 1540 – 1619) and his wife, Anne Stone (1555–1622), daughter of William Stone, haberdasher of London.[2] He was the elder brother of:[2]

He married Bridget, daughter and heir of Benedict Barnham, an alderman of London. Her sister Alice married Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban in 1606.


References

  1. Holmes, Clive (1970). The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers, 1644–1646. Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society.
  2. '366. Soame, of Thurlow, Suffolk', in A. Collins, The English Baronetage (Thomas Watton, London 1741), III, Part II, pp. 715–20, at p. 717-18 (Google). View image at Flickr.
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