Nicholas Sotherton

Nicholas Sotherton (died 1540), of Norwich, Norfolk, was an English merchant and politician.

He was a grocer, alderman and Mayor of Norwich 1539–40.

In the chancel of St. John the Baptist's Church in Madder-Market, Norwich:

Sotherton, arg. a fess, in chief two crescents gul. impaling Hetherset, az. a lion rampant guardant or.

Children of Nicholas Sotherton and Agnes Wright:

Thomas Sotherton, (by 1525 – 1583), Member of Parliament for Norwich in 1558 and 1559 and mayor of the city in 1565–66, m. Elizabeth, the daughter of Augustine Steward, mercer, alderman and Mayor of Norwich, and had four sons and four daughters His brother Thomas was married to Mary's sister Elizabeth Steward, a double marriage between the two families. Probably Nicholas Sotherton, Sheriff of Norwich in 1572, the author of the only known surviving eye-witness account of Kett's Rebellion, The Commoyson in Norfolk, 1549. He is described as being 'son of a Norwich mayor'. Elizabeth Sotherton, who married John Aldrich (by 1520 – 1582), Member of Parliament for Norwich in 1555 and 1572 and mayor of the city in 1570–71