Sir Clement Higham, Knight, of Barrow Hall, Suffolk

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, (died 9 March 1571), was a Member of Parliament

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, Speaker of the House of Commons

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 (1554–1555), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer

Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer

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, and a Privy Councillor to Queen Mary

Mary I of England

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. He was also a barrister

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-at-law and a Reader and Governor of Lincoln's Inn

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 in London.

He married (after 1528) Anne (1506–1590), daughter of Sir George Waldegrave (1483–1528) of Smallbridge

Smallbridge, Suffolk

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 in Bures St. Mary

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, Suffolk, by his wife Anne (d.1572), daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Lord of the Manor

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s of Thurston

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, and Hawstead, Suffolk, (1455–1536). (See also Waldegrave family

Waldegrave family

Waldegrave, the name of an English family, said to derive from Walgrave in Northamptonshire, but who long held the manor of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk.Sir Richard Waldegrave served as a Knight of the Shire in 1339 in Lincolnshire...

).

Sir Clement Higham was buried in the parish church at Barrow, Suffolk

Barrow, Suffolk

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, where there is an altar tomb in the chancel with effigy brasses, arms, and long eulogistic inscription, and his heraldic coat of arms is displayed in a window at Lincoln's Inn.