Hugh Stucley


Sir Hugh Stucley was lord of the manor of Affeton in Devon, and was Sheriff of Devon in 1545. His third son was Thomas Stukley, known as "The Lusty Stucley".

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Stucley of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon in 1521, by his wife Anne Wode, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Wode, of Childrey in Berkshire, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1500 and in 1478 elected a Member of Parliament for Wallingford.

Marriage and children

Stucley married Jane Pollard, second daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard, lord of the Manor of King's Nympton in Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526, and Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, in 1491. Jane's brother was the influential Sir Richard Pollard, MP, of Putney, Surrey, who was an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries and who in 1537 was granted by King Henry VIII the manor of Combe Martin in Devon, and in 1540 Forde Abbey. An heraldic stained-glass roundel survives in the south window of the Pollard Chapel in the south aisle of King's Nympton Church showing the arms of Stucley impaling Pollard, with quarterings of each family.
By his wife he had five sons and five daughters.

Sons