Thomas Sadler

Sir Thomas Sadleir ( – 5 January 1607) of Standon, Hertfordshire was an English landowner and politician. He was elected MP for Lancaster in 1572 and was Sheriff of Hertfordshire from June to November 1588 and in 1595-6. He was knighted by 1600. He was the eldest son, and heir, of Sir Ralph Sadleir (1507 – 1587) of Hackney and Standon and Ellen Mitchell, daughter of John Mitchell of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire and "widow" of Matthew Barre of Sevenoaks, Kent. Sadleir was a student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1554 and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1558. He has been described as a man "who lived in honourable reputation for his religion, justice, bounty, love of his country, favour of learning and all other virtues, and as he lived, he ended his life Christianly." He married, firstly, Ursula Sharington, daughter of Sir Henry Sharington of Lacock, Wiltshire, with whom he had no children; secondly, Gertrude Markham, daughter of Robert Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, with whom he had a son and a daughter: Ralph Sadleir (1579 – 1661), married Anne Coke (1585 – ), the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634) and his first wife, Bridget Paston (d. 1598), daughter of John Paston of Norwich, Norfolk. Gertrude Sadleir, married Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar (1584–1639).