John Gostwick

Sir John Gostwick (c.1480 – 15 April 1545) was an English courtier, administrator and MP.

After Wolsey's death, he worked for his successor Thomas Cromwell in a number of important and lucrative roles, acting as a personal paymaster.

[4] During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he acquired a considerable number of other properties and in 1538 was one of the judges who sentenced the Abbot of Woburn to be hanged for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy.

At some point in his career as MP, he made a direct attack on Thomas Cranmer, as a Lutheran in his views on the sacrament.

The incident was dated as in 1544 by John Foxe, but scholars now suspect it was earlier, at the time of the debates on the Six Articles.

Dovecote at Willington Manor; it was constructed by Sir John Gostwick to house 1500 pigeons. [ 1 ] Materials from Newnham Priory (dissolved 1535) may have been used. [ 2 ]
St Lawrence, Willington; the north chapel here (1541), and possibly the whole church, was constructed by Sir John Gostwick. [ 8 ]