Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet (9 July 1615 – 10 December 1684) was an English academic, landowner and politician who sat in the

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in 1659. Sclater was the son of William Sclater of Halifax Yorkshire and was baptised at Halifax on the day of his birth. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He was incorporated BA at

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from 1635 to 1636 and was awarded MA in 1639. He was created Doctor of Medicine in 1649 and was incorporated at Cambridge University in that year. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. Following the Restoration, he was created

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of Cambridge on 25 July 1660. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from 1680 to 1681.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 3''
/ref> Sclater purchased Catley Park, south of Linton, and other estates in Cambridgeshire and built a mill at Hildersham. On his death the estates passed to his great nephew Thomas Sclater. Sclater married on 25 February 1653 Susan Comber, widow of Thomas Comber, Master of Trinity College a daughter of Freston of Norwich. He died at the age of 69 without heirs so the baronetcy became extinct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sclater, Thomas 1615 births 1684 deaths Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge English landowners Alumni of the University of Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1659 Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge High sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire