Robert Shute

This article is about the MP for Cambridge, died 1590. For the MP for St Albans, see Robert Shute (died 1621).

Robert Shute (died April 1590) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1571 to 1581.

Shute was born at Gargrave, West Riding of Yorkshire, and was the son of Christopher Shute, of Oakington, Cambridgeshire. He was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge probably in 1542, or 1544. He was admitted Gray's Inn in 1550 and was called to the bar in 1552. He was Recorder of Cambridge from 1558 until his death in 1590. He was reader for his Inn in 1568.[1]

In 1571, Shute was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge. He was re-elected MP for Cambridge in 1572. In 1576 he was treasurer of his Inn. He became a Serjeant-at-law in 1577 and was Baron of the Exchequer from 1579 to 1586. He became a justice of the Queen's Bench in 1586.[1]

Shute married Thomasine Burgoyne, daughter of Christopher Burgoyne, of Long Standon, Cambridgeshire and Thomasine Freville.[2] His son Robert was MP for St Albans.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Shute, Robert (SHT542R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis (1999). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years, Fifth Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. p. 167.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Henry Serle
Roger Slegge		 Member of Parliament for Cambridge
1571
With: Roger Slegge		 Succeeded by
Henry North
Roger Slegge
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