Sir Thomas Gower, 1st Baronet (1584–1651)
was an English nobleman, politician, and knight. He was an early member of the
Leveson-Gower family
Leveson-Gower ( ), also Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, is the name of a powerful British noble family. Over time, several members of the Leveson-Gower family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the family include the duked ...
. He was knighted by
James I James I may refer to:
People
*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
*James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
*James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
*James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...
and was created a
baronet
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on 2 June 1620.
[Collins (1812)]
p. 445
/ref> In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire
The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere ...
.
Family
Thomas was the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Gower (military engineer and at one time Marshal of Berwick and later governor of Aymouth Fort), and his wife Mary, daughter of Gabriel Fairfax, Esq. of Steeton in Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...
.[
On 28 May 1604 Thomas married Anne Doyley, daughter and coheir to John Doyley, of ]Merton, Oxfordshire
Merton is a village and civil parish near the River Ray, about south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 424.
Archaeology
In 1978 a Middle Bronze Age spearhead was found at West End Farm ...
and by her (who died 28 October 1633, and was buried in the church of St Clement Danes
St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. Although the first church on the site was reputedly founded in the 9th century by the Danes, the current ...
in London) had issue Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet (c. 1605–1672) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight. He was a member of the Leveson-Gower family. He twice served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire and supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War ...
his successor, Doyley a colonel of dragoons, in the service of Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
and other sons.[
]
Notes
References
*Collins, Arthur (1812). ''Collins's peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical'', Volume 2, Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, J. Nichols and Co. T. Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, ... nd 21 others 1812
;Attribution
1584 births
1651 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Thomas Gower, 1st Baronet
High Sheriffs of Yorkshire
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