Francis Bromley

A member of an important legal and landowning dynasty of the Shropshire landed gentry, his career was cut short by an early death.

[6] Bromley was sent to Shrewsbury School in 1565,[1] at a time when it was still new under the headship of Thomas Ashton, and an explicitly Calvinist institution.

He entered Magdalen College, Oxford on 10 January 1575:[7] his stated age of 19 helps determine his date of birth as around 1556.

[9] While Edward went on to some eminence in the profession, Francis is not mentioned again by name in the records, so it is likely his studies were intended to give him the legal foundation useful to his future position as a significant landowner in Shropshire.

[12] Joyce Leighton was the daughter of: This was a marriage of equals, with both partners coming from the dominant group of county gentry families.

[16] William Davenport and Jane Bromley allegedly eloped after a secret and forbidden courtship in the grounds of Wrottesley.

Effigies of Francis Bromley's parents in St Peter's church at Worfield
Sir Thomas Bromley , the famous uncle who became Lord Chancellor .
Effigies of Edward Bromley and Margaret Lowe, his wife, in Worfield parish church. Edward, Francis's younger brother, inherited the Bromley properties in 1610 on the death, sine prole , of Francis's son, Thomas.