Spouse(s) Elizabeth Berkeley Name William Hussey Father John Hussey Role Judge | Mother Elizabeth Nesfield Parents John Hussey Buried Sempringham | |
Died September 8, 1495, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Place of burial Sempringham, United Kingdom Children John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford People also search for John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, Anne de Grey, Susan Wornick | ||
Sir William Hussey (or Huse or Husee), SL (1443 – 8 September 1495) was an English lawyer who served as Attorney General and as Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.
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Family
William Hussey was the son of John Hussey or Huse of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Elizabeth Nesfield or Neffield of Yorkshire.
Career
He was a member of Gray's Inn, and on 16 June 1471 was appointed Attorney General, with full power of deputing clerks and officers under him in courts of record. As Attorney General he conducted the impeachment of the Duke of Clarence for treason. In Trinity term of 1478 he was made a Serjeant-at-Law, and on 7 May 1481 was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in succession to Sir Thomas Billing, at a salary of 140 marks a year. This appointment was renewed at the ascension of each of the next three kings, and under Henry VII, he was also a commissioner to decide the claims made to fill various offices at the coronation.
In the first year of this reign, he successfully protested against the king's practice of consulting the judges beforehand upon crown cases which they were subsequently to try. In June 1492, he was a commissioner to treat with the ambassadors of the King of France. He died 8 September 1495, and was buried at Sempringham. On 24 November of that year, Sir John Fineux succeeded him as Chief Justice.
Marriage and issue
About 1474 Hussey married Elizabeth Berkeley (c.1453 - 1504), daughter of Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham, Leicestershire, and Petronella Brooksby. They had five sons, and two daughters: