Thomas Marbury was the

High Sheriff of Cheshire This is a list of Sheriffs (and after 1 April 1974, High Sheriffs) of Cheshire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most ...

, serving in that position from 9 December 1620 to 16 November 1621. He was MP for

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for the

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. In 1638 his daughter Mary ied 1658married John Bradshaw. Marbury was heir to the manor of

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. Siding with the Parliamentarians, he raised troops for the

Battle of Nantwich The Battle of Nantwich was fought on 25 January 1644 in Cheshire during the First English Civil War. In the battle, Sir Thomas Fairfax in command of a Parliamentarian relief force defeated Lord Byron and the Royalists. The Parliamentari ...

of 1644. It was widely suspected that Marbury was not a military man himself. Thomas Marbury was among several Cheshire Parliamentarians to be pardoned by Charles II in 1651.R. N. Dore, the Civil Wars in Cheshire, p. 75 He served in the Second Protectorate Parliament from 17 September 1656, to 26 June 1657.

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