Thomas Lewknor (MP for Ripon)

He was the son of Richard Lewknor, a younger son of a prominent gentry family in Sussex and his wife Joan, daughter of Richard Mascall of Lindfield, West Sussex.^[1] He entered the service of Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Worcester^[2] and settled in Worcestershire, where he acquired the manor of Alvechurch.^[3]

Following Heath's promotion to be Archbishop of York, Lewknor was added to the commission of sewers for that county and represented Ripon in the parliament of 1558.^[2] His public employment ended after the accession of Elizabeth I and in 1564 he was listed as an adversary of Protestantism.^[2]

He married:

1. Bennett, daughter of Thomas Chaloner of Lindfield, the mother of his children.^[1]
2. Jane daughter of John Wheeler of Droitwich, Worcs. and widow of John Combe of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1554.^[4] William Combe was his stepson and may have also been his son-in-law.

On his death Alvechurch passed to his son Nicholas, who died without heir, and then to his daughter Jane.^[3]