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Sir Walter Leveson (155020 October 1602)〔('Lilleshall: Manor and other estates', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford (1985), pp. 153-155 ) Retrieved 10 April 2013.〕 was an Elizabethan Member of Parliament and a Shropshire and Staffordshire landowner who was ruined by involvement in piracy and mental illness.〔(History of Parliament Online: Members 1558-1603 - LEVESON, Walter (1551-1602) - Author: J.J.C. )〕 ==Background and education== Walter Leveson was the son of Sir Richard Leveson (died 1560)〔〔.〕 of Lilleshall Abbey and the grandson of James Leveson (died 1547),〔 a Wolverhampton wool merchant who bought Lilleshall in 1539 after the dissolution of the lesser monasteries and built a house on the site.〔(Victoria County History: Shropshire, Volume 2, Chapter 14: The Abbey of Lilleshall. )〕 In 1540 James Leveson also bought Trentham Priory, another recently dissolved Augustinian house, and in 1543 the manor of Lilleshall,〔 a large estate around the abbey site which had formerly been part of the abbey demesne. These formed the nucleus of the family estates. The family name is pronounced , and could be rendered in many ways in the 16th century, including Lewson, Luson and Lucen. Leveson's mother was Mary Fitton (1529–1591),〔 daughter of Sir Edward Fitton (died 1548) of Gawsworth, Cheshire, and sister of Sir Edward Fitton (1527–1579) of Gawsworth, a soldier and adventurer who made his fortune in the Tudor conquest of Ireland and rose to be Lord President of Connaught. The family name was sometimes rendered as Futton. Walter Leveson had two sisters, Mary Leveson, who married Sir George Curzon of Croxall, Derbyshire,〔.〕 and Elizabeth Leveson, who married William Sheldon (died 1587), second son of William Sheldon (died 23 December 1570) of Beoley and Mary Willington.〔〔; .〕 Sir Richard Leveson died in 1560, when Walter was about 8 years old. As a minor whose father held land of the Crown by knight service, Walter became a royal ward. His wardship was sold to Sir Francis Knollys, whose wife, Catherine Carey, was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, and who made a fortune from similar royal grants.〔(History of Parliament Online: Members 1558-1603 - KNOLLYS, Sir Francis (by 1512-96) - Authors: Alan Harding/M.A.P. )〕 Walter did not come into full possession of his family's estates until 1572. Walter Leveson was educated at Shrewsbury School, then a fairly new institution, to which he was admitted in 1562.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Leveson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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