About Roger Woodhouse
Lived 1541 – 1588 (aged 46–47). Roger Woodhouse was a politician.
Roger Woodhouse ( – 1588), of Kimberley, Norfolk, was an English politician.
Woodhouse was the eldest son of Thomas Woodhouse. His mother was Margaret, the daughter Sir John Shelton of Shelton. Roger was knighted in 1578.
Woodhouse married Mary, daughter of John Corbet of Sprowston, and had two sons and one daughter.
Woodhouse died in 1588, and was buried on 4 April 1588 at Kimberly. His heir was his son, Philip Woodhouse.
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