Thomas Lucy
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Sir Thomas Lucy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespeare. As a Protestant
Effigies of Sir Thomas Lucy and his wife, Joyce Acton, St. Leonard's church, Charlecote
Charlecote Park circa 1880
Shakespeare Before Thomas Lucy by Thomas Brooks, a typical Victorian portrayal of the poaching story
Thomas Lucy's coat of arms, depicting "luces" (pike), from William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire
Charlecote Park
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Charlecote Park is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.
Thomas Lucy
…family were descended from the Anglo-Norman de Lucy family. On his father's death, Lucy inherited Sherborne and Hampton Lucy in addition to the house of Charlecote Park, which was rebuilt for him in red brick by John of Padua, known as John Thorpe, about 1558. Through his marriage he also inherited Sutton Park in…
View toward the front in 2017