Thomas Fermor (by 1523–1580) was an English politician. He was born a younger son of merchant

Richard Fermor Richard Fermor (1480x84–1551), was an English wool merchant. His father, Thomas Fermor, was also a wool merchant in Witney, Oxfordshire. By 1505 Richard was a merchant of the staple at Calais. In 1509, he was one of the jurors who convicted ...

and was the brother-in-law of

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He became a merchant of the staple and a member of the Grocer's Company. From his wife he acquired an estate in

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and on the death of his uncle

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an estate in Oxfordshire. Fermor was elected a

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(MP) of the

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for

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in October 1553 and for

in 1558. He was appointed

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for 1558–59 and made Recorder of Bridgnorth from 1561 to his death in 1580. He married twice; firstly Frances the daughter and heiress of Thomas Horde of Horde Park,

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and the widow of Edward Raleigh of Farthinghoe,

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and secondly Bridget, the daughter of Henry Bradshaw of

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and the widow of Henry White of South Warnborough,

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, with whom he had at least a son and two daughters.

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