Sir Stephen Thornhurst, member of the Thornhurst family
Dates: Dates not securely established in the sources reviewed; active in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Biography
Sir Stephen Thornhurst was a Kent-connected gentleman associated with the lease of Agney or Agnes Court in the middle of the sixteenth century. The sources reviewed do not establish a complete personal biography or exact dates.
Notes / Sources
His connection is leasehold, not freehold ownership.
Research sources:
- Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, vol. 8, 1799, Old Romney, p. 441, for the Dean and Chapter's inheritance; modern summary of the Agney leaseholding sequence corroborated by later scholarship on the Thornhurst family. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Agney%2C_Kent
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