Editing Richard Zouch (section)

== Early life ==
Zouch was born at [[Ansty, Wiltshire]], the third surviving son of Francis Zouche (d.1600) and Philippa, sixth daughter of George Ludlow of [[Hill Deverill|Hill Deverel]], Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lefevre|first=Peter|title=ZOUCHE, Richard (c.1589-1661), of Doctors' Commons, London and Oxford, Oxon.|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/zouche-richard-1589-1661|access-date=14 June 2021|website=History of Parliament Online}}</ref> He was educated at [[Winchester College|Winchester]] and afterwards at [[New College, Oxford]], where he was a scholar in 1607, and Fellow in 1609.<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Zouch, Richard|volume=28|page=1045}}</ref> He graduated as B.C.L. in 1614, and D.C.L. in 1619, was admitted at [[Doctor's Commons]], London, in January 1618, and was appointed [[Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Civil Law]] at Oxford in 1620.<ref name="EB1911"/> In addition to his university duties, he had a large legal practice in London.<ref name="americana">{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Zouche, Richard}}</ref>

It was apparently in 1622 that he married Sarah, daughter of John Harte of [[Brill, Buckinghamshire|Brill]] in Oxfordshire, a proctor in Doctors' Commons; having thus vacated his fellowship, he entered himself in 1623 as a fellow commoner at [[Wadham College]].