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Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer (21 July 1695 – 19 October 1768) was an English Member of Parliament, who was created Baron Archer in 1747. His arms are blazoned: ''Azure three arrows or.''Landed Families of Britain and Ireland: Archer of Umberslade and Hale, Barons Archer
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He was the eldest son and heir of Andrew Archer of Umberslade Hall in Tanworth in Arden, History of Parliament
/ref> His daughter Catherine married Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth.
thePeerage.com: Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer
1695 births 1768 deaths People from Tanworth-in-Arden 1 Peers of Great Britain created by George II Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 {{GB-baron-stub
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Biography
He was the eldest son and heir of Andrew Archer of Umberslade Hall in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
and his wife Elizabeth Dashwood. His younger brother was Henry Archer. Thomas succeeded his father to Umberslade in 1741.
He served as Member of Parliament of Warwick
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from 1735 to 1741 and then for the rotten borough
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of Bramber in Sussex
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from 1741 until 1747, when he was raised to the peerage. He was also Custos Rotulorum of Flintshire from 1750 to 1753.
In 1734 he became a trustee, together with his younger brother, for the newly formed colony of Georgia
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on the east coast of America.
He married Catherine Tipping, daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet and Anne Cheke, and had a son and daughters.
He was succeeded by his son Andrew Archer, 2nd Baron Archer, on whose death in 1778 the title became extinct./ref> His daughter Catherine married Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth.
See also
*Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Oglethorpe, James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in ...
* Umberslade Obelisk
Ancestry
References
External links
thePeerage.com: Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer
1695 births 1768 deaths People from Tanworth-in-Arden 1 Peers of Great Britain created by George II Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 {{GB-baron-stub