Henry Mannox

Henry Mannox (also spelled Mannock or Monoux) (by 1526 – 1564) of London, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire and Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire was an English Member of Parliament for Huntingtonshire.

If he were not the Henry Mannox who became a captain in Calais in 1544, he first appears in records in 1547 as a justice of the peace in Surrey, where he managed the manor of Vanne in Godalming through his wife's rights.

Unlike Lawrence, Mannox left Parliament early without permission, leading to a charge against him in the King's Bench during Easter term 1555, with a writ issued to the sheriff, but no further action taken.

[1] By 1559, Mannox had a second home in Haddenham in the Isle of Ely, possibly because his responsibilities extended to Cambridgeshire as well as Huntingdonshire, or due to family conflicts.

Margaret Mannox or Mannock married Francis Cromwell alias Williams, and since Anne Chapman's small inheritance was unpaid before Lawrence's death, the court of arches ordered its payment by decree in 1575.

[2][3] Lady Margaret Howard and her third husband, Henry Mannox, owned together 10 acres of land that eventually turned into the location of Russell House in Balham, Streatham.

However, lacking any evidence that she stayed with her aunts, it seems vastly more probable that she was brought up by her step-mothers, Dorothy and Margaret, as Edmund would likely have expected these women to assume the role of mothers to his young daughters.

[5] It was Steinman who suggested that Margaret Mundy's third husband was the Henry Mannox who had been music master to Katherine Howard in her youth, and had been involved in sexual indiscretions with her which later contributed to her downfall.

How he came to be engaged as Katherine’s music teacher is uncertain; that he was known to Norfolk was undoubtedly in his favour; that he was a cousin of Edward Waldegrave, who was already in the duchess’s employ, gave him further advantage.

[13] In Katherine Howards own words: 'First, at the flattering and fair persuasions of Mannock being but a young girl I suffered him at sundry times to handle and touch the secret parts of my body which neither became me with honesty to permit nor him to require.

Unlike Dereham, Manox avoided legal consequences and later relocated to Hemingford in Huntingdonshire, where he passed away in 1564, three decades after his ill-fated relationship with the former Queen of England.