Sir Thomas Bramhall, 1st Baronet was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was the son and heir of

John Bramhall John Bramhall, DD (1594 – 25 June 1663) was an Archbishop of Armagh, and an Anglican theologian and apologist. He was a noted controversialist who doggedly defended the English Church from both Puritan and Roman Catholic accusations, as well a ...

, Archbishop of Armagh, and sat in Parliament for

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from 1661 to 1666. On 31 May 1662, he was created a baronet in the

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, and on 25 June 1663 succeeded his father to the family estate of Bramhall Hall, Rathmullyan, County Meath. In 1664 he was

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, and in that year was married to Elizabeth, daughter of

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and his second wife Anne Parsons. They had no children, and on his death in Dublin in 1667 his co-heirs were his three sisters. His widow was remarried in 1669 to John Topham LLD (later

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), Judge Advocate General for Ireland and Vicar General of Dublin. G. E. C., ''The Complete Baronetage'', volume III (Exeter, 1908) pp. 317–318.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bramhall, Thomas 1667 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland High Sheriffs of County Louth Politicians from County Meath Irish MPs 1661–1666 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tyrone constituencies