Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet FSA, DL (6 January 1762 – 25 June 1857) was a British politician and baronet. He was the illegitimate son of the 17th Baron Dacre and Elizabeth FitzThomas. Barrett-Lennard was educated at

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. He entered the

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for

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in 1832 and was a

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(MP) until 1835. Barrett-Lennard was a deputy lieutenant of Essex, and a Fellow of the

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. On 30 June 1801, he was created a

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, of Belhus, in the County of Essex. On 15 January 1787, he married firstly Dorothy St Aubyn, daughter of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet. She died in 1830, and Barrett-Lennard married secondly Georgina Matilda Stirling, daughter of

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on 20 June 1833. He had seven sons and four daughters by his first wife as well as one son by his second wife. Their fifth son,

Edward Pomeroy Barrett-Lennard Edward Pomeroy Barrett-Lennard (19 June 1799 in England – 29 June 1878 in Upper Swan, Western Australia) was an early settler in the Guildford, Western Australia, Guildford area of Western Australia. He was the fifth son of Sir Thomas Barrett-L ...

, emigrated to Australia where he established a large estate named after the one on which he had grown up. Barrett-Lennard died aged 96 and was at this time the most senior member of the baronetage. His oldest son

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represented

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and having predeceased his father for a year, Barrett-Lennard was succeeded in the

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by his grandson Thomas.

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* 1761 births 1857 deaths 1

Deputy Lieutenants of Essex Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1832–1835 People from Aveley {{England-UK-MP-stub