Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Francis Nethersole
Sir Francis Nethersole,
Was the son of Thomas Nethersole, of Nethersole House, Wingham. He was a royalist, and according to Camden, public orator at Cambridge. During the civil wars he retired to Polesworth, in Warwickshire, where he married Lucy, daughter of John Henry Goodiere, by whose persuasion he built and endowed the free Grammar School of Polesworth. He died at Polesworth in 1659.
[See "Hasted's Kent," "Camden's Britannia," and "Dugdale's Warwickshire."]