Sir Thomas Walcot
SL (6 August 1629 – 6 September 1685) was an English judge and politician.
Family
Thomas Walcot, born 6 August 1629, was the second son of Humphrey Walcot (1586-1650) and his wife Anne Docwra (d.1675), whose mother, Jane (née Peryam) Docwra, was the daughter of
Sir William Peryam.
[.] Walcot had an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, William.
Career
Walcot entered
Trinity College, Cambridge
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on 16 May 1646,
became a member of the
Middle Temple
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on 12 November 1647, and was
called to the Bar
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there on 25 November 1653. On 15 February 1662 he became Attorney-General of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in April 1676 a Justice of the North Wales circuit. On 3 September 1679 he was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Ludlow
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, becoming a
Serjeant-at-Law
A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are writ ...
in May 1680 and a
Justice of the King's Bench
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on 22 October 1683, a position he held until his death on 6 September 1685.
Marriage and issue
On 10 December 1663, Walcot married Mary Littleton (d. 1695), the daughter of
Sir Adam Littleton of
Stoke St. Milborough,
Shropshire
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. Their only child, Thomas Walcot, died in infancy.
Footnotes
References
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External links
Walcot, Thomas (1629-85), History of Parliament Walcot, John (1624-1702), History of Parliament
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1629 births
1685 deaths
Justices of the King's Bench