Christopher More

Sir Christopher More (c. 1483 – 16 August 1549) was an English administrator, landowner, and Member of Parliament. More was the son of John More, a London fishmonger, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was active in local administration in Sussex and Surrey, and from 1505 until his death held office in the Exchequer, rising in 1542 to the post of King's Remembrancer. His sister, Alice More, was the fourth wife of Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More.

Family Christopher More, born about 1483, was the grandson of Thomas More of Norton, Derbyshire. He was the son of a London fishmonger, John More, and his wife, Elizabeth. He had a brother, Robert More of London, who married a wife named Mary, and two sisters, Alice (d. 1545), who married firstly John Clerke, and secondly Sir John More, father of Sir Thomas More,

Career

More was a clerk in the Exchequer by 1505, and in the same year purchased the office of alnager for Surrey and Sussex. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1513, becoming one of the first officers in the Exchequer known to have been formally trained in the law. He was elected to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for Surrey in 1539, and again in 1547.

Marriages and issue More married firstly, Margaret Mugge or Mudge, the daughter of Walter Mugge or Mudge of Guildford, Surrey, by whom he had five sons, Sir William More, Richard, two sons named Christopher, and John, and seven daughters, Elizabeth; Cecily; Margaret, who married Thomas Fiennes, a brother of Lord Dacre; Eleanor, who married William Heneage of Milton; Bridget, who married a husband surnamed Compton, of Guernsey; Anne, who married John Scarlett; and Elizabeth, who married John Wintershall or Wintershull.

More married secondly, by 1535, Constance Sackville, widow of William Heneage (d. 10 June 1525). She was the daughter of Richard Sackville (d. 28 July 1524), esquire, of Withyham, Sussex, and the sister of John Sackville. Constance survived him, and died at Shalford, Surrey, on 29 March 1554.