About Nicholas Wykes
Lived 1480 – 1558 (aged 77–78). Nicholas Wykes was an English politician.
Nicholas Wykes (c. 1488 – 1558) was a Gloucestershire landowner and MP.
He was the eldest son of Edmund Wykes of Dodington, Gloucestershire and Dursley, Gloucestershire and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Norton of Bristol. The family's estate was comparatively modest, but his father secured his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Poyntz (died 1520) and Margaret, illegitimate daughter of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.
Wykes held a number of posts in the local administration of Bristol and Gloucestershire and twice served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. He was a knight of the shire for Gloucestershire in the parliament of April 1554.
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English Member of Parliament (died 1558)
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Nicholas Wykes was born in 1480.
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Nicholas Wykes died on 21 April 1558.
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Nicholas Wykes was a politician.
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