Born before 1359, he was the first member of his family to sit in Parliament, being elected for Kent in 1380 and in 1384.[2] In the eleventh year of King Richard II (22 June 1387 to 21 June 1388) he acquired from the Crown the manor of Hemsted in the parish of Benenden that had been forfeited by Sir Robert Belknap, chief justice of the common pleas,[2][3] and he was chosen sheriff of the county in that year.[3] He died in 1394.
