Hugh Calverley (MP for Liverpool)

Hugh Calveley (c. 1578 – 20 September 1606), of Lea, Cheshire, was an English politician who represented Liverpool as a Member of Parliament in 1601 during the latter years of the reign of Elizabeth I.

The correct spelling of the Cheshire family from which Sir High is descended is Calveley.

He was born circa 1578, the second son of Hugh Calveley of Lea and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph Leycester of Toft.

[1] The college was associated with Lancashire and Cheshire, the county origins of its two founders, and contained many Catholic sympathizers during an era of Protestant ascendancy.

[1] A younger son who died in his twenties, almost nothing is known of him, including how he came to be returned to Parliament for Liverpool.

Canting arms of Calveley: Argent, a fess gules between three calves passant sable [ 2 ] As a second son, Hugh would have differenced these arms in some manner.