Sir Thomas Lyster of

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(1612–1655), supported King Charles I during the English Civil War.

Life

Thomas Lyster of Rowton was eleven years of age in 1623, according to the visitations. He was a devoted adherent of King Charles I. During the first campaign of the English Civil War, when Charles I arrived in

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he presented 500 pieces of gold to help pay for the war. He was knighted for this act of loyalty.Burke, John. ''Genealogical and Heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high rank, but uninvested with heritable honours.'', Vol. III, London, H. Colburn; tc., etc. 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI)
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/ref> In 1642 he signed a joint engagement with other gentlemen of the county to help raise a regiment of dragoons. He was given a high command in the garrison established in Shrewsbury, and on the fall of the town he was taken prisoner, but his wife may have gallantly held

for nearly a fortnight against all the efforts of the parliamentary officer, Colonel Thomas Mytton and did not surrender until she had obtained good terms from Mytton . Sir Thomas died in 1655. He was buried at the Old

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,Not the currently used church building, erected on separate site in 1790, following collapse of most of the older church in 1788. on 17 March, and was succeeded by his son Richard.

Family

Sir Thomas was first married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Adye, of the county of Kent, and had by her one son, Richard, his heir, and one daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of — Draycott, of Ireland. He married secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir

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, by whom he had a son, Thomas, barrister-at-law, who d. unmarried, and two daughters, Dorothy, the wife of William Jordan, esq. and Mary, who died unmarried.

References

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