William Dalison (died 1546)
William Dalison (died 1546) of Laughton in the parish of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, was Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1546 and Escheator of Lincolnshire. Career He was closely associated with the influential Sir William Tyrwhitt of Scotter, whose children and widow he was entrusted with caring for. His brother was Dr. Roger Dalison, Chanter of Lincoln Cathedral. Marriage and children He married Anne Wastneys, a daughter of George Wastneys of Haddon in Nottinghamshire, by whom he had at least two sons and one daughter: George Dalison (d.20 June 1549), eldest son and heir. He married Isabel Hopkinson and was the ancestor of the Dalison baronets, of Laughton (created in 1611 and 1624), namely Sir Roger Dalison, 1st Baronet (c. 1562 – 1620), Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, and his son Sir Thomas Dalison, 1st Baronet (died 1645) who had to reapply for a new creation of the baronetcy as a clerical error was discovered in the register of baronets. Sir William Dalison (died 1559), a judge who served as a Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire in 1553. As he instructed in his will, he was buried in Lincoln Cathedral under a "tomb which bears a picture of him wearing his robes of justice".