Family
He married Margaret Harvey, and their son Anthony, succeeded his father as Governor of Jersey. By his wife, he had three sons and three daughters:
- Hugh (b. 1558), the eldest son, died before his father.
- Anthony (b. 1562), was his father's heir
- George (b. 1565) by marriage with a distant cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Paulet, became the owner of Goathurst, in Somerset
- Joan married Robert Heyden of Bowood, Devonshire
- Sarah married Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey
- Elizabeth died unmarried.
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