Christopher Danby

Sir Christopher Danby MP JP (1503 – 14 June 1571), of Farnley, Masham, and Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, of St. Paul's Cray, Kent, and of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, and of Nayland, Suffolk, was an English politician.

Life He was born to Sir Christopher Danby and Margaret ( Scrope), daughter and coheiress of Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1518, and on the death of his mother, inherited the manor of Masham. He was knighted in 1533 at the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn (second wife of King Henry VIII). Christopher Danby, John Danby, James Danby, Marmaduke Danby, and William Danby, who was possibly the William Danby who served as coroner at the inquest into the death of Christopher Marlowe in 1593.

Their eight daughters were Dorothy Danby, who married Sir John Neville; Mary Danby; who married Sir Edmund Mauleverer Joan Danby, who married Roger Meynell, esquire; Margaret Danby, who married Christopher Hopton, esquire; Anne Danby, who married Sir Walter Calverley, and was the grandmother of Walter Calverley (d. 1605), whose murder of his children is dramatised in A Yorkshire Tragedy, attributed on the title page to William Shakespeare; Elizabeth Danby, who married Thomas Wentworth, esquire; Magdalen Danby, who married Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 1st Baronet; and Margery Danby, who married Christopher Mallory, esquire.