Edmund Withypoll (1510/13 – 18 May 1582), Esquire,[2] of London, of Walthamstow, Essex, and of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English merchant, money-lender, landowner, sheriff and politician, who established his family in his mother's native county of Suffolk,[3] and built Christchurch Mansion, a distinguished surviving Tudor house, as his Ipswich home.[4]
- ^ E. Hawkins (ed. A.W. Franks and H.A. Grueber), Medallic illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II, Vol. I (The British Museum, 1885).
- ^ Contrary to many accounts, Edmund Withipoll never received knighthood, and styled himself 'Esquier' in his will of 1582. "Sir" Edmund Withipoll was his grandson and eventual heir.
- ^ A.D.K. Hawkyard, 'Withypoll, Edmund (1510/13-82), of London; Walthamstow, Essex and Christchurch, Ipswich, Suff.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558 (Boydell & Brewer 1982), History of Parliament online.
- ^ Moore Smith, G. C. (1936). The Family of Withypoll: with special reference to their Manor of Christchurch, Ipswich and some notes on the allied families of Thorne, Harper, Lucar, and Devereux. Letchworth: Walthamstow Antiquarian Society.