John Glanville (judge)

The Glanvill memorial in the Parish Church of St Eustachius, Tavistock  (July 2022)

Arms of Glanville: Azure, three saltires or[1]

Sir John Glanville (1542 – 27 July 1600), the elder, of Kilworthy, Tavistock, in Devon, was an English Member of Parliament and judge and was the first judge recorded as having reached the bench after beginning his career as an attorney.

  1. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 410, pedigree of Glanville of Tavistock