Joe starkey biography

For the Episcopal bishop, see Thomas A. Starkey. For the 19th-century lawyer and jurist, see Thomas Starkie.

Thomas Starkey (c. –) was an English political theorist, humanist, and royal servant.

Life

Starkey was born in Cheshire, probably at Wrenbury, to Thomas Starkey and Maud Mainwaring. His father likely held office in Wales and was wealthy enough to pay for his son's education. His mother, Maud, was a daughter of Sir John Mainwaring, one of the wealthiest men in the palatinate.

Joe starkey biography

He attended the University of Oxford and gained an MA at Magdalen College in He went to Padua with Thomas Lupset in Here he studied the works of Aristotle and admired the government of Venice. By he had entered the service of Reginald Pole as secretary.^[1] Together with Pole, Starkey went to Avignon in where he studied civil law, before returning to Padua.

Starkey returned to England in late and caught the eye of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, in ear