Bassingbourne Gawdy (died 1590)

Bassingbourne Gawdy (1535[1] – 20 January 1590[2]), of West Harling, Norfolk, was an English landowner, magistrate and Member of Parliament (MP).

[3] He was the second son of Thomas Gawdy (d.1556) of Shotesham and Redenhall, Norfolk, by his father's first wife, Anne, daughter and coheiress of John Bassingbourne of Woodhall, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

According to the Visitations, his first wife was Anne (1536[8]–1587[12]), the daughter of John Wootton of North Tuddenham, Norfolk,[8] the great-niece of Henry Wotton, and the widow both of Thomas Woodhouse of Hickling, Norfolk (son of Sir William Woodhouse),[13] and of Henry Reppes of Mendham, Suffolk, the widower of Bess Holland, and the maternal uncle of Anne Wootton's first husband.

[12] By this marriage, Gawdy had two sons: His second wife was Margaret, daughter of Eustace Sulyard, and widow of Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex.

These two pictures, as they are not half so big as the life, are drawn with a pretty good spirit and firm manner, the colouring faded.'

Bassingborne Gawdy of Mendham, Norfolk, son of Thomas Gawdy of Redenhall, Norfolk, Serjeant-at-law, and Anne Bassingborne his wife, married in 1558 Anne, daughter of John Wootton of Tudenham and Elizabeth Bardwell his wife, and grand-daughter of John Wootton of Tudenham, whose second wife was Mary Nevill, Baroness Dacre (see above).