Sir Thomas Cartwright (1795 – 15 April 1850) was a British diplomat who served in Germany, Belgium and Sweden. Cartwright was the son of

William Ralph Cartwright William Ralph Cartwright (30 March 1771 – 4 January 1847) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1797 and 1846. Life Cartwright was the son of Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe Park and his wife Mary Ca ...

, M.P. for

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and his wife Hon. Emma Mary Hawarden. He was educated at

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. From 1821 to 1829 he was secretary of legation in

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and was then on a special mission in Belgium. From 1830 to 1838 he was minister plenipotentiary to the German Confederation in

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. He was knighted as a Knight Grand Cross, Hanoverian Order in 1834. From 1838 to 1850 he was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in

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, where he was among a group of British residents who helped to set up regular Anglican church services in the city. He died there in 1850. Cartwright married, in 1825, Graefin Maria Elisabeth Augusta von Sandizell, the daughter of a Bavarian nobleman. Lady Cartwright survived her husband by more than 50 years, and died at her residence in Leamington, on 13 April 1902, aged 97. Her watercolours of Aynhoe House and village in the 1840s, with some extracts from her diaries, have been published.Lili at Aynhoe: Victorian Life in an English Country House
/ref> Their son

William Cornwallis Cartwright William Cornwallis Cartwright (24 November 1825 – 8 November 1915) was an art collector, author and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885 Biography Cartwright was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cartwright, ...

was MP for

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