{{Short description|English politician (1547–1610)}} {{see also|Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Sir Henry Maynard | image = MaynardArms.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Arms for Maynard of Estaines Parva<ref name=burke/> | birth_name = | birth_date = 1547 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death year and age|1610|1547}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = Little Easton Church | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = secretary to Lord Burghley | education = | employer = | occupation = politician, secretary and landowner | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Susan Pearson | children = | parents = John and Dorothy Maynard | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} thumb|right|Henry Maynard monument in the Church of St Mary, Little Easton '''Sir Henry Maynard''' (1547–1610) was an English politician and secretary to Lord Burghley, and became (by steady accretion) a substantial landowner.
==Origins== Maynard was the son of John Maynard, who had been MP for St Albans in the first Parliament of Mary I of England in 1553–1554 (being one of the 39 members who absented themselves, rather than acknowledge the authority of the Pope), and his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Robert Perrot.<ref name="Collins">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yFI5AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22sir+henry+maynard%22+knight&pg=PA283 Collins’s ''Peerage'' (1812), volume 6]</ref>
==Political career== He was secretary to Lord Burghley, the Lord High Treasurer, and by virtue of his position he was able to take advantage of troubled assets and gradually became a major landowner, especially in Essex. He served as MP for St. Albans in the parliaments of 1586, 1588, 1592 and 1597. "He sat on committees concerning recusancy, horse and cattle stealing, privileges, penal laws, painters and stainers, and fustians".<ref name="Hankins">[http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-1107103-144724/unrestricted/Hankins_dis.pdf Jeffery Hankins, ''Local Government and Society in Early Modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, c. 1590-1630'' (2003)]</ref> He was also summoned to the parliament of 1601 as a knight of the shire for Essex. He was High Sheriff of Essex in the last year of Elizabeth’s reign (1603) and was knighted by her.<ref name="Collins"/> In July 1603, following the accession of James I, he was appointed as Deputy Lieutenant for Essex (the new Lord Lieutenant being the Earl of Sussex).<ref name="Hankins"/> He also developed a reputation as a moneylender.
In 1595–96, he acquired the manor of Tooting Graveney from James Harrington. When the Queen visited in 1600, she was probably his guest.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45393 Daniel Lysons, ''The Environs of London'' (1792), volume 1]</ref>
==Family== He married Susan, the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Pearson, gentleman-usher of the Star Chamber (whose property included two inns in Queen Anne's Gate called the White Hart and the Saracen's Head<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67615 Montague Cox, ''Survey of London'', volume 10 (1926)]</ref>), and had eight sons by her. The eldest, William, became the first Lord Maynard. Another, John, became a Knight of the Bath.<ref name=burke>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LKIKAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22john+maynard+K.B.%22&pg=PA348 Burke's ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies'' (1844)]</ref> Yet another son, Charles Maynard, was Auditor of the Exchequer during the reign of Charles II and the father of Sir William Maynard, 1st Baronet.
==Death and posterity== He made his will on 20 August 1609 and it was proved on 18 May 1610. Among other bequests, he left £2,000 to each of his daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, his London properties to his son Charles, and £500 and his leasehold properties in Warwickshire to his son Francis. He was buried at Little Easton, Essex, near Easton Lodge, a property granted to him by Queen Elizabeth in 1590.<ref name=SEAX>[http://unlockingessex.essexcc.gov.uk/custom_pages/monument_detail.asp?kids=1&monument_id=16162 Unlocking Essex's Past: Easton Lodge]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Essex County Council, accessed 2010-12-18</ref>
His epitaph reads: {{blockquote|text="Here resteth, in assured hope to rise in Christ, Henry Maynard, Knight, descended of the ancient family of Maynard, in the county of Devon; and Dame Susan, his wife, daughter and one of the coheirs of Thomas Pierson, Esq. to whom she bear eight sonnes and two daughters. He died 11 May 1610, and was survived by his wife, six sons, and two daughters, then living."|sign=Little Easton Church|source=<ref name="Collins"/>}}
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