Background
Sir Thomas Lucy was born on April 24, 1532 near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
Sir Thomas Lucy was born on April 24, 1532 near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
He is said to have been under the tutorship of John Foxe, who is supposed to have imbued his pupil with the Puritan principles which he displayed as knight of the shire for Warwick in the parliament of 1571.
Lucy often appeared at Strat'ford-on-Avon as justice of the peace and as commissioner of musters for the county. As justice of the peace he showed great zeal against the Lucy was knighted in 1565. He sat in two sessions of Parliament as knight of the shire for Warwick, was a justice of the queen’s peace and a member of the council for the Marches of Wales (to superintend the Welsh borders), and became a hunter of recusants (usually Roman Catholic dissenters from the Church of England). In 1588 he was a commissioner for musters against the Spanish Armada.
It was said that he prosecuted the young Shakespeare for stealing deer in Charlecote park, though the story gained currency only long after Shakespeare’s death.
Lucy married Joyce Acton, daughter of Thomas Acton of Sutton, Worcestershire.