Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet (c. 1672 – 2 April 1704) of Pakenham Hall in

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, was an English baronet and landowner who served as

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in 1696.

Career

Spring was the eldest son of

Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet (1642–1684) was an English politician, member of the Spring family and MP for Suffolk in 1679–1684. Spring was educated at King Edward VI School and Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a const ...

and Sarah Cordell, daughter of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet of Melford Hall, Suffolk. He was educated at

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and inherited his father's title and estate upon his death in 1684.

Marriage and issue

On 23 May 1691, he married Hon. Merolina Jermyn, a daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn and Mary Merry, and co-heiress of

Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Jermyn and 1st Baron Dover, 1st Jacobite Earl of Dover PC (c. 1636–1708) was an English peer and supporter of James II. Jermyn was the second son of Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, who died in 1659, and his w ...

. They had three sons and six daughters: *Thomas Spring (died 1694) *Merolina Spring (died 1694) *Merolina Spring (1695–1761), married Thomas Discipline of Bury St Edmunds. She inherited the manor of Packenham, in the church of which survives the funeral hatchment of Thomas Discipline, showing his arms with inescutcheon of Spring. *Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736), died unmarried. He bequeathed his estates to his two surviving sisters, Merolina and Mary, but was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740). *Mary Spring (1698–1765), married Revd. John Symonds and was the mother of

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and Thomas Symonds and grandmother of Admiral Sir

William Symonds Sir William Symonds CB FRS (24 September 1782 – 30 March 1856, aboard the French steamship ''Nil'', Strait of Bonifacio, Sardinia)Year of birth uncertain 1704 deaths 17th-century English people Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of England English landowners High Sheriffs of Suffolk

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