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NameSir Thomas Frowick 
[54, His article]
[54, His article]Birthca 1464
Death1506
GeneralJudge
FatherSir Thomas Frowick
MotherJoan Sturgeon
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Frowyk, Sir Thomas d. 1506
Name: Frowyk, Sir Thomas
Dates: d. 1506
Active Date: 1486
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Judge
Place of
Birth: Gunnersbury
Education: Cambridge, The Inner Temple
Burial: Finchley
Spouse: Joan Bardville, Elizabeth
Sources: Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Chron. Ser...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Frowyk, Sir Thomas d. 1506, judge, a member of an important family of citizens of London, among whom king's goldsmiths, aldermen, and mayors are to be found (see Price, Guildhall of the City of London, 1886), was second son of Sir Thomas Frowyk of Gunnersbury, by his wife Joan, daughter and heiress of Richard and Joan Sturgeon. Born at Gunnersbury at least as early as November 1464, when he is mentioned by name in the will of his grandmother, Isabella Frowyk, he received his education at Cambridge. As Fuller (Worthies, ed. 1662, p. 183) says that he died before he was forty years old, which is confirmed by a statement in Croke's `Keilwey's Reports' (ed. 1688, p. 85) that he died `in florida juventute sua,' he must have joined the bar at a very early age, as his name occurs in the year-books of 1489. He was a member of the Inner Temple, and became serjeant in Trinity term 1494, according to the year-book. Dugdale, however, makes this event two years later. In May 1501 he was appointed a judge of assize in the western counties. In 1502, along with Mr. Justice Fisher and Conyngsbye, king's serjeant, he acted as arbitrator between the university and town of Cambridge, and by his award, 11 July, defined their respective jurisdictions. On 30 Sept. 1502 he succeeded Sir Thomas Wood as chief justice of the common pleas, and was knighted at Richmond the Christmas following. On 17 Oct. 1506 he died, and was buried at Finchley. According to Fuller, who says that he was `one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that office,' he was `accounted the oracle of law in his age.' By his first wife, Joan Bardville, he had one son, Thomas (d.s.p.); his second wife, Elizabeth, married after his death Thomas Jakys; Frideswide, Frowyk's daughter and heiress by her, married Sir Thomas Cheyney of Shirland.
Sources
Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Chron. Ser.; Cass's South Mimms, p. 99, London and Middlesex Arch‘olog. Soc. 1877, which corrects Foss; the Society's Transactions, iv. 260; Cooper's Athen‘ Cantabr. i. 10; Weever's Monuments, p. 333; Plumpton Correspondence, Camd. Soc. pp. 152, 165; Bibl. Legum Angli‘, ii. 192; Rot. Parl. vi. 522; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. v. 332.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1889
Name: Frowyk, Sir Thomas
Dates: d. 1506
Active Date: 1486
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Judge
Place of
Birth: Gunnersbury
Education: Cambridge, The Inner Temple
Burial: Finchley
Spouse: Joan Bardville, Elizabeth
Sources: Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Chron. Ser...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Frowyk, Sir Thomas d. 1506, judge, a member of an important family of citizens of London, among whom king's goldsmiths, aldermen, and mayors are to be found (see Price, Guildhall of the City of London, 1886), was second son of Sir Thomas Frowyk of Gunnersbury, by his wife Joan, daughter and heiress of Richard and Joan Sturgeon. Born at Gunnersbury at least as early as November 1464, when he is mentioned by name in the will of his grandmother, Isabella Frowyk, he received his education at Cambridge. As Fuller (Worthies, ed. 1662, p. 183) says that he died before he was forty years old, which is confirmed by a statement in Croke's `Keilwey's Reports' (ed. 1688, p. 85) that he died `in florida juventute sua,' he must have joined the bar at a very early age, as his name occurs in the year-books of 1489. He was a member of the Inner Temple, and became serjeant in Trinity term 1494, according to the year-book. Dugdale, however, makes this event two years later. In May 1501 he was appointed a judge of assize in the western counties. In 1502, along with Mr. Justice Fisher and Conyngsbye, king's serjeant, he acted as arbitrator between the university and town of Cambridge, and by his award, 11 July, defined their respective jurisdictions. On 30 Sept. 1502 he succeeded Sir Thomas Wood as chief justice of the common pleas, and was knighted at Richmond the Christmas following. On 17 Oct. 1506 he died, and was buried at Finchley. According to Fuller, who says that he was `one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that office,' he was `accounted the oracle of law in his age.' By his first wife, Joan Bardville, he had one son, Thomas (d.s.p.); his second wife, Elizabeth, married after his death Thomas Jakys; Frideswide, Frowyk's daughter and heiress by her, married Sir Thomas Cheyney of Shirland.
Sources
Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Chron. Ser.; Cass's South Mimms, p. 99, London and Middlesex Arch‘olog. Soc. 1877, which corrects Foss; the Society's Transactions, iv. 260; Cooper's Athen‘ Cantabr. i. 10; Weever's Monuments, p. 333; Plumpton Correspondence, Camd. Soc. pp. 152, 165; Bibl. Legum Angli‘, ii. 192; Rot. Parl. vi. 522; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. v. 332.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1889