Richard Weston (treasurer)

Sir Richard Weston (1465–1542), KB, of Sutton Place in the parish of Guildford in Surrey, was a courtier and diplomat who served as Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer during the reign of King Henry VIII.

His biographer Frederic Harrison of Sutton Place wrote (1899): There is hardly a single state ceremony or event during the eighth Henry's reign in which he is not recorded to have part.

[1] His main residences were Cranbourne Lodge, where he was the keeper, and Ufton Court, both in Berkshire, and then Sutton Place, Surrey, which he re-built in a ground-breaking style, the last two being granted to him by the king.

[1] In 1533, Henry VIII paid a state visit to Weston at his newly built mansion at Sutton Place.

[2] In 1542, he surrendered his post of sub-treasurer of England "ob senectutem debilitatam et continuam infirmitatem"[7] (20 January) and died on 7 August.

Sir Richard Weston, (representative image, not portrait) drawn by Sir Thomas Wriothesley in 1509, attending deathbed of King Henry VII. (Detail from: British Library Additional MS 45131, folio 54)
Arms of Weston: Ermine , on a chief azure five bezants
Sir Richard Weston at the deathbed of King Henry VII at Richmond Palace, 1509. He stands 5th at the King's left hand, his armorials above, quartering Camell of Shapwick , Dorset, with a crescent for difference of a second son
Monogram of Sir Richard Weston, 1520s terracotta moulding, Sutton Place
Rebus of Weston, a "waisted-tun", a barrel with concave ends. 1520s terracotta moulding, Sutton Place