George Snigge

Sir George Snigge (1544/45 – 11 November 1617) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1605.

He became a student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1564, and was awarded BA on 25 June 1566.

He was admitted a student of the Middle Temple on 9 August 1567 and was called to the bar on 17 June 1575.

On 13 May 1608 he was additionally made Chief Justice of the Great Sessions for Breconshire, Glamorgan and Radnorshire at a salary of £50 a year and held the post until February 1617.

[1] Snigge died at the age of 72 in London and lay in state for six weeks at Merchant Taylors Hall in Broad Street before he was buried on 23 December 1617 in St Stephen's Church, Bristol.