The pursuivants to the left are identified by their reversed tabards, while the figure in the right ( with the black hat ) is probably Garter King of Arms Thomas Wriothesley | Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

Henry Wriothesley, whose name is included in the 1605 panel of the New World Tapestry, took a considerable share in promoting the colonial enterprises of the time, and was an active member of the Virginia Company's governing council.

Art historians from Bristol University have found what they believe is a picture of Henry Wriothesley which was painted over in the sixteenth century.

He says that he lived some years with the Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, possibly the young man in Shakespeare's Sonnets, and there is an account of an incident involving Florio at Titchfield Abbey, the Earl's Hampshire home.

It is certain that he was one of those who acquiesced in James I's accession and assisted Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton in securing the Tower of London for the King.

", " the only begetter of these ensuing sonnets ", he is a popular candidate, although Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, has also been popular.

In 1978 he played Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton in the drama series Will Shakespeare, about the life of Shakespeare.

On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied ; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected ; for Buckingham first shared, and soon surpassed him, in the royal favour.

On the recommendation of General Monck and Cooper's wife's uncle, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Charles appointed Cooper to his privy council on 27 May 1660. Cooper took advantage of the Declaration of Breda and was formally pardoned for his support of the English Commonwealth on 27 June 1660.

According to the chronicler Charles Wriothesley, Richmond became sickly some time before he died, although Richmond's biographer Beverley A. Murphy cites his documented public appearances and activities in April and May of that year, without exciting comment on his health, as evidence to the contrary.

As soon as he took over, Wriothesley set about building himself a house on the site.

In 1538 he returned to England to advise Thomas Wriothesley on the conversion of Titchfield Abbey.

He was created Baron Howland of Streatham on 13 June 1695, with remainder to his grandson, Wriothesley Russell.

He married, thirdly, Catherine Wriothesley Noel ( d. 1733 ), daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, on 8 January 1673 They had three children:

He married, firstly, Catherine Russell, daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell and Lady Rachel Wriothesley, on 23 August 1693.

* Thomas Wriothesley ( d. 1534 ), Garter King of Arms.

** Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton ( d. 1667 )

* July 30 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician ( b. 1505 )

* May 16 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman ( b. 1607 )

** Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician ( d. 1550 )

In fact, in the early weeks of his Protectorate, Somerset met opposition only from the Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, whom the Earldom of Southampton had evidently failed to buy off, and from his own brother.

While Bloomsbury was not the first area of London to have acquired a formal square, Bloomsbury Square, laid out in 1660 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton as Southampton Square, was the first square to be named as such .< ref name = LondonEncyc >< cite > The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.

In the 16th century, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown, and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton.

Lily's pupils included William Paget, John Leland, Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baron North.

The felony of buggery ( sodomy ), like all other felonies, carried a sentence of capital punishment by hanging, but Udall wrote an impassioned plea to his old friends from Cromwell's household Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler ; then joint principal secretaries of state, and his sentence was reduced to just under a year in the Marshalsea prison.

He was twice married: first to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton ; and secondly to Frances, daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst.

From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

# Alexander Charles Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1950 ), great-great-grandson of Lt .- Col. Lord Charles James Fox Russell, seventh son of the 6th Duke

# John Paul Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1995 ), only son of Alexander Russell

Opening of Parliament by Henry VIII at Bridewell Palace | Bridewell in 1523 ; a contemporary illustration from the Sir Thomas Wriothesley | Wriothesley Garter Book

Roll of grants of arms during the Tudor period by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, c 1528

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 ), known as The Lord Wriothesley between 1544 and 1547, was a politician of the Tudor period born in London to William Wrythe and Agnes Drayton.

Entering the service of Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey at an early age, Wriothesley soon made himself very useful to his masters, and he was richly rewarded when the monasteries were dissolved, obtaining extensive lands between Southampton and Winchester.

Thomas Wriothesley, the English diplomat in Brussels, advised Thomas Cromwell that Henry should ; " fyxe his most noble stomacke in some such other place.

He had already been created Baron Wriothesley ( pronounced " Risley ") in 1544, also in the Peerage of England.

Southampton County may have been named for Southampton, a major city in England, or for Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, one of the founders of the Virginia Company and a supporter of colonization in North America.

Hampton was named for Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, an important leader of the Virginia Company of London, for whom the Hampton River, Hampton Roads, Southampton County and Northampton County were also named.

The sixth town in the colony to be incorporated, the town was named for Wriothesley Russell, Baron Howland of Streatham, a friend of Massachusetts Royal Governor Samuel Shute, when New Hampshire was still a part of that colony.

It was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1644 when Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore, was made Earl of Chichester, in the County of Sussex, with remainder to his son-in-law Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton ( the husband of his daughter Elizabeth ).

Other adherents of the Southampton theory suggest that the initials H. W. ( Henry Wriothesley ) were simply reversed for the sake of concealment by the publisher.

According to Akrigg, Arundell was ' gifted and scholarly ', but by the time he had reached his 30s had failed to find any outlet for his talents and had ' sunk into a melancholic existence ', living a ' studious solitary life ' at the Wriothesley estates in Hampshire or in the family apartments at Southampton House in London.