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

Pakenham, Suffolk Pakenham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Its name can be linked to Anglo-Saxon roots, Pacca being the founder of a settlement on the hill surrounding Pakenham chur ...

, 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 and Sarah Cordell, daughter of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet of Melford Hall, Suffolk. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge 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 Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn (10 November 1633 – 1 April 1703) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 until he inherited a peerage in 1684. Biography Jermyn was the son of Thomas Jermyn (d.1659) of Rushbrook ...

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 wi ...

. 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 John Symonds and Thomas Symonds and grandmother of Admiral Sir William Symonds *Penelope Spring (1700–1707) *Jermyn Spring (died aged 17) *Henrietta Maria Spring (died January 1733), died unmarried *Delariviera Spring (died 1 February 1733), died unmarried

Death and succession

Sir Thomas Spring was buried on 6 April 1704 in Pakenham parish church. He was succeeded in his title by his only surviving son, Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736),William John Courthope, ''Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England'' (Rivington, 1835), p.187. who died unmarried, when the baronetcy, but not his estates, passed to his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spring 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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