Sir William Paston, 1st Baronet
William Paston, 1st baronet, (1528–1610) was an English benefactor;[1] and the father of the first Earl of Yarmouth. [2]
Paston was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, in 1546. In 1554 he inherited the family estates. He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk between 1565 and 1556 and knighted on 22 August 1578.[3]
He founded North Walsham Grammar School in 1606.[4] The school has a portrait of him by an unknown artist, which shows him ‘venerable in his civilian attire of sober black’ (Forder, p.11). He died on 20 October 1610.
| Baronetage of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Inaugural appointment |
Baronet (of Paston and Oxnead, Norfolk) 1578–1610 |
Succeeded by Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth |
References
- Judith Ford, ‘Paston, Sir William (1528–1610)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 30 April 2017
- History of Parliament Online - Paston, Robert
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- Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Oxford University.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- A History of the Paston School, Forder, C., p.6; North Walsham, The Governors of Paston School, 1975 ISBN 0950559806 - Charles Forder, second edition 1975.
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