Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet (died 1657) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1656. Rivers was the son of James Rivers and his wife Charity Shirley, daughter of Sir John Shirley of Isfield Sussex. He succeeded his grandfather Sir John Rivers, 1st Baronet to the

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in around 1651, his father having died earlier. John Burke ''A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage Volume 2''"> John Burke ''A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage Volume 2''
/ref> In 1656, Rivers was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. Rivers died unmarried in around 1657.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivers, Thomas Year of birth missing 1657 deaths English MPs 1656–1658 Baronets in the Baronetage of England