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| Birth: | 1532 in Merifield, Somerset, England |
| Death: | 20 Oct 1609 in Merifield, Somerset, England |
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| Burial: 20 Dec 1609 St. Mary's, Ilminster, Somerset, England |
| Changed: 11 Jan 2005 |
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| Dorothy PETRE (Wife) b. 1535 in London, England
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| Marriage: | 3 SEP 1555 in St. Botolph's, Aldersgate St., London, England |
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http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/NicholasWadham.htmFather: John WADHAM of Merifield (Sir); Mother: Joan TREGARTHENBorn in 1532, was the only surviving son of John Wadham (d.1577), and his wife Joan, daughter and coheir of John Tregarthinof Cornwall. The family originally came and took its name fromWadham or Wadeham in the parish of Knowstone, North Devonshire,where it was settled in the reign of Edward I. Thence itmigrated to Egge or Edge, near Seaton in the same county.Edge was the seat of John Wadham d. 1411, who was appointed ajudge of the common pleas in or about 1388. He seems to havebeen dismissed or resigned in 1397, but survived until 1411. Hisson, Sir William Wadham, sheriff of Devonshire in 1438, wasgreat-grandfather of Sir Nicholas Wadham (d. 1541), captain ofthe Isle of Wight, vice-admiral to the Earl of Surrey in 1522-3,and knight of the shire for Somerset during the Reformationparliament, 1529-34; he married as his second wife Margaret,aunt of Queen Jane Seymour and the Protector Somerset. Hiseldest son by his first wife was John, father of Nicholas.Nicholas is said to have been educated at Corpus ChristiCollege, Oxford, but his name does not occur in either thecollege or the university registers. On 3 Sep 1555 he married,at St.Botolph's, Aldersgate Street, London, Dorothy (b. 1534),elder daughter of Sir William Petre, by his first wife,Gertrude, daughter of Sir John Tyrrell. Wadham then retired tohis seat at Merefield, where he resided the remainder of hislife, dispensing lavish hospitality. He avoided politics, andapparently took little share in local affairs; he was, however,on 21 Apr 1586 added to the commission for the restraint ofgrain and victuals in Somerset (Acts of the Privy Council, xiv.70).His estates were worth three thousand pounds a year in thecurrency of the period, and out of this income he saved fourteenthousand pounds, which he determined to spend on charitablepurposes, having no children, and his inherited propertydevolving on his nephews, Sir John Strangways and Sir WilliamWyndham, father of Wadham Wyndham. In 1606 he founded analmshouse for eight poor people at Ilton, but the bulk of hissavings was to be devoted to educational purposes. His originalidea is said to have been to establish a college at Venice forthe education of English Roman Catholics. The reason for thisintention was his alleged adherence to the Roman Catholic faith,but this is inconsistent with the Anglican tone of his statutesfor Wadham College, and in any case the foundation at Venicewould have been illegal. Ultimately Wadham determined to found acollege at Oxford, and he drew up statutes for the proposedestablishment. These anticipated some modern reforms byproviding that fellowships should be tenable only for a certainnumber of years, and that neither for them nor for thewardenship should holy orders be a necessary qualification. Butbefore any steps were taken to acquire a site, Wadham died atMerefield on 20 Oct 1609, and was buried in Ilminster church,where he is commemorated by a monument and brass; his portrait,painted in 1595, hangs in the warden's lodgings at WadhamCollege. His plans were at once taken up by his widow, in spiteof her predilection for the Roman Catholic faith, which sheshared with the rest of her family. Negotiations were enteredinto, according to Wadham's instructions, with a view topurchasing the site of Gloucester Hall; they fell throughbecause the principal stipulated that he should be head of thenew institution. Wadham had wished that application should nextbe made to Jesus College, which does not seem to have been done,and the site of the priory of the Austin friars was purchasedfor six hundred pounds from the corporation of Oxford on 6 Mar1609-10. The building of the present Wadham College was begun onthis site in the following Apr, and it was completed in Jul1613. Contrary to Wadham's intention, the warden was required tograduate D.D. within a year of his appointment. Dorothy Wadhamdied at Edge on 16 May 1618, and was buried with her husband inIlminster church, where she is commemorated by a brass andmonumental inscription. Her portrait, painted, like that of herhusband, in 1595, hangs in the warden's lodgings at WadhamCollege; both were mezzotinted by Faber, and are reproduced inMr. T. G. Jackson's Wadham College, 1892.Sources:Cal. State PapersEgerton Papers (Camden Soc.)Wood's Hist. et Antiqq.Fuller's WorthiesPrince's Worthies of DevonGranger's Biogr. Hist.Chalmers's Biogr. Dict.Clark's Colleges of OxfordGardiner's Reg. of Wadham CollegeW. H. Rogers's Memorials of the WestCollins's PeerageJ. J. Howard's Collections on Catholic Families
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