{"id":443,"date":"2023-02-01T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:52:19","slug":"nicholas-wadham-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/nicholas-wadham-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Wadham Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"443\" class=\"elementor elementor-443\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d9b2571 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d9b2571\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;shape_divider_top&quot;:&quot;opacity-fan&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shape elementor-shape-top\" data-negative=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 283.5 19.6\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\">\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" style=\"opacity:0.33\" d=\"M0 0L0 18.8 141.8 4.1 283.5 18.8 283.5 0z\"\/>\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" style=\"opacity:0.33\" d=\"M0 0L0 12.6 141.8 4 283.5 12.6 283.5 0z\"\/>\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" style=\"opacity:0.33\" d=\"M0 0L0 6.4 141.8 4 283.5 6.4 283.5 0z\"\/>\n\t<path class=\"elementor-shape-fill\" d=\"M0 0L0 1.2 141.8 4 283.5 1.2 283.5 0z\"\/>\n<\/svg>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de46bec\" data-id=\"de46bec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6f0c4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e6f0c4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 09-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Nicholas Wadham<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-968971c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"968971c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 09-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>(1531-1609)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8ee3fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e8ee3fe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d8d14ef\" data-id=\"d8d14ef\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-055f180 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"055f180\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 09-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/LION-q0gpbr6r4yyj1gg8kyppv4u7ndgbgct1ej23t2fgdk.png\" title=\"LION\" alt=\"LION\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d036443 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d036443\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a797b45\" data-id=\"a797b45\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6aecc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a6aecc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Nicholas-Wadham-1531-1609--q0y2g98973e5hti2ktu7rgxpgcpg70eswssf6jncps.jpg\" title=\"Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609)\" alt=\"Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-455b7d0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"455b7d0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb59470\" data-id=\"cb59470\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d33d9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d33d9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>1st cousin, 14 times removed, of Paul Borrow-Longain (by marriage)<\/p><p>Nicholas Wadham was born in 1531 to John Wadham of Merifield and Edge in Somerset and his wife Joan nee Tregarthin, whose family came from Cornwall. Nicholas was the only surviving son. His grandfather, Sir Nicholas Wadham, held a number of public offices being a Member of Parliament and variously the Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. He was also noted for being at the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold with Henry VIII.<\/p><p>Wadham who did not hold any title was at Corpus Christi College, Oxford before being admitted to the Inner Temple in 1553. Records show that he spent a short time at court.<\/p><p>He married Dorothy Petre, the eldest daughter of Sir William Petre, on the 3rd September 1555. The wedding took place at St. Botolph\u2019s Church, Aldersgate in the City of London. At the time of the marriage, Sir William Petre was Secretary of State to Mary I, as he had been to her father Henry VIII.<\/p><p>The newly-married Wadhams took up residence at Ilton in the family residence, Merifield. As landed gentry, Nicholas Wadham held a range of minor public appointments. He became a Justice of the Peace for Somerset after his father\u2019s death. Dorothy and Nicholas Wadham never had children.<\/p><p>The Wadham family were believed to hold Catholic sympathies which led to accusations of recusancy. Under Elizabeth I recusants were Catholics found guilty of non-adherence to the official Anglican faith. Those found guilty of recusancy were liable to a fine or imprisonment. In 1608 the Privy Council stayed recusancy proceedings against Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham The following year, Nicholas Wadham died at Merifield at the age of 77. Considered to be one of the richest fifty men in England he left substantial sums of money for various purposes. There was \u00a3500, a large sum at the time, to pay for a full heraldic funeral such as his father had received. Alms were distributed to the poor throughout Somerset. \u00a36000 cash reserves were set aside to purchase land on which to establish a college at Oxford, with further trusts set up to endow the institution. As the only son and without children of his own to continue the Wadham name, a college named after the family would secure Nicholas Wadham\u2019s name in perpetuity.<\/p><p>Despite his apparent wishes to found a new college at Oxford, Nicholas failed to put any instructions relating to this desire in his will. Instead, Dorothy, his wife who had already been named in writing as his executrix was charged by her husband on his deathbed to found Wadham College. Despite her own advanced age and some lack of clarity around her husband\u2019s final instructions, she fulfilled his wishes within four years as a co-founder. Statues of Nicholas Wadham and his wife survive today at Wadham College inset on an external wall.<\/p><p>The Latin inscription between the statues translates as Nicholas Wadham of Somerset, Esquire, ordered the building of as an oral declaration (of his last will). Indeed he having been snatched away by fate he bequeathed to his wife Dorothy the completion, she without delay finished and magnificently added her own expenditure. O You Highest Father be present favourably inclined and to you (to present and to you give) we seek perpetuity.<\/p><p>In line with Nicholas\u2019s final wishes, his body was interred at Wadham Chapel in St. Mary\u2019s Church, Ilminster \u201cwhere my auncestors lye interred\u2019. His monumental tomb was constructed of Purbeck marble with an inlaid brass portrait which can still be seen today in the north transept.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) 1st cousin, 14 times removed, of Paul Borrow-Longain (by marriage) Nicholas Wadham was born in 1531 to John Wadham of Merifield and Edge in Somerset and his wife Joan nee Tregarthin, whose family came from Cornwall. Nicholas was the only surviving son. His grandfather, Sir Nicholas Wadham, held a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}