- AUDLEY, SIR THOMAS, LORD
- born in Essex, son of a yeoman; became Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of England; the selfish, unscrupulous tool of Henry VIII. (1488-1554).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AUDLEY, SIR THOMAS, LORD
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