page_title: Henry Billingsley
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Billingsley / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Siston Court, Gloucestershire, England., view from the east. Engraving by Johannes Kip (1653-1722) Dutch draughtsman. Commissioned by Mr Trotman, owner of Siston Court, for inclusion in book by Sir Robert Atkyns, published 1712,The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire,which included 65 folio engravings of Gloucestershire mansions. Published in monochrome. Tinted by later hand. This is a photo of listed building number 1231511.
context_page_description: Sir Henry Billingsley was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London and the first translator of Euclid into English.
context_section_description: He married five times and had at least ten children.  The majority of his children were born to his first marriage to Elizabeth Bourne (died July 1577). His third wife  Katherine Killigrew (died 1598) came from the prominent Cornish  family  whose seat was at Arwenack near Falmouth.
  He purchased, with his son Henry,  Siston Court,  Gloucestershire c.1598 from Arthur Player of Westerleigh, who had acquired it in 1595. His daughter Elizabeth married the cloth merchant, Sir John Quarles (not to be confused with the later poet John Quarles).
caption: Siston Court in 1712
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