Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr (c. 1352 – 7 May 1427) was an English nobleman, the second son of

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and Elizabeth de Welle, daughter of Adam, 3rd Baron Welles. Intended for the church, in 1363, De La Warr received a dispensation, permitting him to be

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ed at the age of twenty, and was made a

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. He received his first

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on 13 October 1372; he was at various times,

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, New Lafford,

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, Swineshead, Grindall (in the

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, Oxton and Cropwell,

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, and

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; frequently in plurality. He was responsible for (in 1420) building St. Luke's church in

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. He enlarged

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into a

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in 1421. There is a statue of him on the exterior of the Manchester town hall. He inherited the title and lands when his brother

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died on 27 July 1398; but asked, three years later, to be excused from Parliament. (He was summoned, on pain of his life, in 1403.) He died, and was presumably buried, at his then parish of Swineshead,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:De La Warr, Thomas La Warr, 5th Baron 1352 births 1427 deaths People from Swineshead, Lincolnshire Barons De La Warr