Thelwall, Eubule (1557-03-25 - 1630-10-08)

Eubule Thelwall was born c.1557 to John Wyn Thelwall (c.1528-1586) of Bathafarn Park, Llanbedr, Denbighshire, and his wife Jane (1525-1585). He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1577. He proceeded M.A. at Oxford in 1580. In 1590 he enrolled at Gray’s Inn and as called to the bar in 1599. In 1604 he became recorder fo Ruthin, Denbighshire, where he had an extensive estate. Thelwall was appointed bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1612, master in chancery and clerk of the alienations office in 1617, and a full bencher at his inn in 1623. He was knighted in 1619. He became president of Jesus College, Oxford in 1621, securing the first proper set of college statutes. Thelwall won a Commons seat for Denbighshire in 1624, which he lost in 1625 and won back the following year. He died on 8 October 1630. Sir Eubule Thelwall never married, dividing his estate between his brother and his nephews upon his death; however, Dorothy Thelwall, noted in DWL MS 28.8, is named as his 16-year-old daughter.