They may have chosen to marry outside Oxford because although he was a royalist, Sir Richard did not support the reforms by which William Laud had been making the Church of England higher. Ann's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Gertrude Thimelby
Her father, Sir Walter Aston
, patron of Michael Drayton
, was British Ambassador to Spain 1620-5 and 1635-8. He was created a baron in 1627. During one of his periods in Spain he became...
Textual Production
Gertrude Thimelby
Gertrude Aston (later GT
) wrote a hyperbolical elegy on her father
's death.
Thimelby, Gertrude. Tixall Poetry. Editor Clifford, Arthur, J. Ballantyne, 1813.
92-3
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.