About John Shurley
Lived 1501 – 1616 (aged 114–115). John Shurley was an English politician and barrister.
John Shurley (died October 1616), of 'The Friars', Lewes, Sussex, was an English politician.
He was a younger son of Edward Shurley (d. 1558) of Isfield, Sussex and Joan, daughter of John Fenner of Crawley. He was a fellow-commoner at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1562. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in August 1565 and was called to the bar sometime before November 1575. He became a bencher in 1587, was treasurer in 1601 and became a serjeant-at-law 1603.
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Who was John Shurley?
English politician, died 1616
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John Shurley was born in 1501.
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John Shurley was a politician and barrister.
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