Thomas Netterville

Thomas Netterville was an Irish judge in the reign of Henry VIII.

Life

He was born at Dowth in County Meath, son of John Netterville and a daughter of Christopher Barnewall, 2nd Baron Trimlestown, and Elizabeth Plunkett. The Nettervilles were an old Anglo-Irish family which had already produced one leading judge, Nicholas de Netterville, who like Thomas sat in the Common Pleas. Luke Netterville, another Irish judge of the era, was Thomas's younger cousin and brother-in-law and was the ancestor of Viscount Netterville.
Thomas was studying law at the Inner Temple in 1507.