Category:Monument to Sir Robert Houghton (died 1624), St Mary's Church, Shelton

Sir Robert Houghton (1548-1624), of Lincoln's Inn and Norwich, Norfolk, a Judge of the King's Bench and an MP for Norwich in 1593. Third son of John Houghton of Gunthorpe, Norfolk by his wife Agnes Playford, a daughter of Robert Playford of Brinton, Norfolk. He married Mary Rychers, a daughter of Robert Rychers of Wrotham, Kent. He died at his chambers in Serjeants’ Inn on 6 Feb. 1624 and was buried at St. Dunstan-in-the-West, City of London. (History of Parliament biography[1])