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Sir Thomas Heneage (1532 – October 17, 1595), politician and courtier at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, where it is said the queen would flirt with him, arousing the jealously of her favourite, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. In 1570 he rose to Treasurer of the Queen’s Privy Chamber, and was knighted in 1577. In 1586 he was sent to the Netherlands to convey the queen’s strong displeasure at Dudley’s acceptance of their offer of the title Governor-General. Heneage publicly read out Elizabeth’s letters before the Dutch politicians, and also, somewhat awkwardly, their new Governor-General. He became Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and was sworn of the Privy Council of England in 1587, before being appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1590. This is one of a cluster of New Addington streets – built from around 1934 by the First National Housing Trust – that were named after Tudor worthies in reference to the fact that Henry VIII used to own a hunting lodge on what became the grounds of Addington Palace. The driving force behind the Trust was its chairman, Charles Boot, which explains why the earliest part of New Addington estate is sometimes referred to as The Boot Estate.
