Francis Wolley

Sir Francis Wolley
Born	1583
Died	November 1609 (aged 25–26)
Spouse(s)	Mary Hawtrey
Children	Mary Wolley (illegitimate)
Parent(s)	Sir John Wolley, Elizabeth More

Sir Francis Wolley (1583 – November 1609) was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and Elizabeth More, the daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey. He was a Member of Parliament, and one of those to whom King James granted the Second Virginia Charter. From 1601 to 1609 he provided a home at Pyrford for John Donne and Anne More after their clandestine marriage.

Francis Wolley, born in 1583, was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and Elizabeth More, one of the Queen's ladies of the Privy Chamber. Wolley's father and mother had both been previously married, Sir John Wolley to Jane Sanderson, and Elizabeth More to Richard Polsted, but neither marriage had produced issue.

Wolley was christened on 4 April 1583. The Queen stood godmother, with the Countess of Lincoln, Surrey's "fair Geraldine", acting as her proxy, and both Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, personally present at the ceremony as his godfathers.

In 1595, when he was only twelve years of age, his father unsuccessfully made suit to have Francis joined with him in his office of Clerk of the Pipe Rolls. Sir John Wolley died on 28 February 1596, and in the same year Wolley entered Merton College, Oxford. In early October 1597, Wolley's mother, Elizabeth, took as her third husband Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley. Wolley was granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1598, and in 1600 entered Lincoln's Inn, an Inn of Court with which his stepfather, Lord Chancellor Egerton, had been closely associated.

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