NEALE, Thomas (1641-99), of Portugal Street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. and Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Family and Education

bap. 3 Oct. 1641, o. s. of Thomas Neale of Warnford by Lucy, da. of Sir William Uvedale†, of Wickham, Hants. educ. ?Winchester; Clare, Camb. 1656; L. Inn 1672. m. 20 June 1664 (with £120,000), Elizabeth (d. 1683), da. of Sir John Garrard, 2nd Bt., of Lamer Park, Wheathampstead, Herts., wid. of Sir Nicholas Gould, 1st Bt.†, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. by 1648. Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 149; Surr. Arch. Colls. iii. 129; London Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. xcii), 101; Misc. Gen. et Her. ii. 108.

Offices Held

FRS 1664.

Freeman, E. I. Co. 1666; asst. R. Adventurers into Africa 1670–1; asst. Tapestry Makers’ Co. 1691; cttee. R. Fishery Co. [I] 1691; dep.-gov. Mines Co. 1693. Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. ed. Sainsbury, vii. 224; Sel. Charters, 226, 238–9; CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 544; 1691–2, p. 3; 1693, p. 207.

Sheriff, Hants 1666–7; freeman, Winchester 1666, Lymington 1667, Portsmouth 1668. Hants RO, Winchester corp. assembly bk. 6, f. 29; C. St. Barbe, Lymington Recs. 9; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 359.

Commr. inquiry into the Mint 1677–8; groom porter 1678–d.; groom of bedchamber 1679–85; commr. for Mint 1684–6, master 1686–d.; postmaster in America 1691–9; commr. Million Fund 1694–d., transfer office for annuities under salt duty 1694–d.; manager, malt duty lottery 1697–d. HMC Lindsey, 164–74; Cal. Treas. Bks. v. 986; ix. 1324, 1426–8; x. 552–3, 626; xii. 126, 279; xiv. 178; xv. 140, 257; CSP Col. 1693–6, p. 637.

Parlimentarian

NEALE, Thomas (1641-99), of Warnford, Hants of Whitehall.

Main residences: Portugal Street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx.; Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Notes

Unless otherwise stated, this article is based on J. H. Thomas, ‘Thomas Neale, a 17th-Cent. projector’ (Southampton Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1979).

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

NEALE, Thomas (1641-99)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

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