GEERS, Thomas (c.1697-1753), of Bridge Sollers, nr. Hereford, and Glasshampton, Worcs.

Geers’s grandfather was a successful lawyer who sat for Hereford 1685-7. His father was one of the local gentry who successfully resisted the attempt of the Duke of Chandos and the Foleys to gain control of the borough in 1722. Returned as a Tory for Hereford on a compromise in 1727, he did not stand again till 1741, when he was returned jointly with his cousin, Edward Hopton. In 1747 he was successful for Worcester but unseated on petition. He spoke occasionallyHMC Egmont Diary, i. 126; iii. 330. and voted consistently with the Opposition. On 4 Feb. 1730 he moved unsuccessfully that Dr. Samuel Croxall be thanked for his sermon preached on 30 Jan., the anniversary of Charles I’s execution, on the text ‘take the wicked [i.e. Walpole] from before the King and His throne shall be established as righteousness’.Knatchbull Diary. He died 23 May 1753.