FERRERS, Thomas (c.1665-1722), of Bangeston, Pemb.

Ferrers, whose family had settled at Cookham in the reign of Elizabeth, served under Marlborough at Ramillies and Malplaquet. By marriage he acquired property in Pembrokeshire, standing for Pembroke in 1710, but desisting.HMC Portland, iv. 569. Returned for it as a Whig in 1715, he voted with the Government on the septennial bill in 1716, but against them on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719. He was to be spoken to by Craggs and George Treby on the peerage bill, on which he did not vote. Again returned in 1722, he died that year, 22 Oct.