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...
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.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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...