Sir Anthony Kingston (ca. 1508 – 14 April 1556) was an English royal official, holder of various positions under several Tudor monarchs. Family Anthony Kingston was the son of Sir William Kingston of Blackfriars, London by one of Sir William's first two wives, either Anne (née Berkeley), the widow of Sir John Guise (died 30 September 1501), or Elizabeth, whose surname is unknown. He had a sister, Bridget, who married Sir George Baynham (died 6 May 1546) of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, son and heir of Sir Christopher Baynham (died 6 October 1557). Sir William Kingston married thirdly, Mary (née Scrope), widow of Edward Jerningham (died 6 January 1515), and daughter of Richard Scrope (died 1485): by her Sir William had no issue. This third marriage of his father's brought to Anthony Kingston four step-brothers, Sir Henry Jerningham (who married Frances, daughter of Sir George Baynham, and died in 1572), Ferdinand Jerningham, Edmund Jerningham (died 9 February 1546) and Edward Jerningham, and a step-sister, Elizabeth Jerningham. Career Kingston served at the head of a thousand Gloucestershire men under the Duke of Norfolk in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536–7, and fought in the defeat (13 October 1536) of the rebels at Louth. He was knighted by Henry VIII on 18 October 1537. He held offices about the court, such as that of serjeant of the king's hawks, and received land formerly belonging to the suppressed monasteries in Gloucestershire, including a regrant of the site of Flaxley Abbey. He was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1533–34 and 1550–51. After the death of Sir William Courtenay of Powderham in 1535, Kingston married his widow, Mary, daughter of Sir John Gainsford, and left Gloucestershire to reside at Chudleigh, Devon, which, with Honiton, belonged to his wife's jointure. Kingston sat in the House of Commons for Gloucestershire in the parliaments of 1539, ?1542, 1545, 1547, 1552–3, and 1555. In 1549 Kingston was made Provost Marshal by King Edward VI and suppressed the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549 with great cruelty. After the Cornish uprising, in which Cornish people were slaughtered when English and mercenary forces moved into Cornwall, John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford left the task of settling scores with the Cornish to Kingston, who was responsible for a series of murders and judicial hangings of well-known figures. They included: Nicholas Boyer, the mayor of Bodmin and John Payne, portreeve of St