{{Short description|British judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more footnotes needed|date=January 2015}} '''Sir Humphrey Starkey''' {{Post-nominals|list=SL}} (died 1486) was a British justice.
He studied at Inner Temple and was made Recorder of London in 1471. In 1478 he was made a Serjeant-at-Law, allowing him to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. He served briefly as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1483 but was moved later that year, becoming Fourth Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and dying in office in 1486.
He had previously married Isabella, who outlived him but died in 1496; their four daughters split his estate Wouldham<ref>[http://www.wouldhamvillage.com/starkeyscastle.html Starkey's Castle] Retrieved 16/4/21.</ref> between them. His daughter Anne Starkey (d. 26 December 1488) married firstly John Writtle, esquire, and secondly Sir John Raynsford (died 1521)<ref>The Rainsford Family with by Emily A Buckland 1932 The Caxton Press, Worcester</ref> and they were the parents of Sir John Raynsford the politician.{{sfn|Richardson I|2011|p=565}}
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==References== *{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |year=2011 |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |editor-first=Kimball G. |editor-last=Everingham |location=Salt Lake City |edition=2nd |volume=I |page=565 |ref={{sfnref |Richardson I |2011}} |isbn=978-1449966379 }} *{{Cite book |last=Foss |first=Edward |year=1870 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of the Justices of England (1066 - 1870) |publisher=Spottiswoode and Company |pages=630}}
{{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{succession box | title = Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer| years = 1483| before = Sir William of Nottingham| after = William Hody}} {{succession box | title=Fourth Justice of the Common Pleas | before=Unknown | after=William Calow | years=1483–1486}} {{s-end}}
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