WENTWORTH, Thomas (1613-65) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. 2 Feb. 1613, 1st s. Thomas Wentworth, 4th Bar. Wentworth (later earl of Cleveland), and Anne (d. 16 Jan. 1638), da. of Sir John Crofts of Little Saxham, Suff. educ. travelled abroad (France and Netherlands) 1630–1. m. bef. 1658, Philadelphia (d. 4 May 1696), da. of Sir Ferdinando Carey, 1da. KB 1 Feb. 1626. d. 1 Mar. 1665; admon. 24 May 1665 to wid. Philadelphia, Lady Wentworth. TNA, PROB 6/40, f. 71.

Offices Held

Gent. of bedchamber 1639–42?, 1649–d.; CSP Dom. 1639–40, p. 171; 1657–8, p. 201. council of war 1643; Harl. 6851, f. 132; Harl. 6852, ff. 79, 86, 89, 92, 95v. PC 1654–d. CSP Dom. 1654, p. 325; 1657–8, p. 201.

Dep. lt. Beds. c. 1635 – 42, 1660–d.; Newman, Royalist Officers, 404; TNA, SP 29/11/144, 146. commr. array, Beds. 1642. Newman, Royalist Officers, 404; Northants. RO, FH 133.

Capt. tp. of horse 1638 – 40; col., regt. of drag. 1642 – 44, Prince of Wales Regt. of Horse 1644–?6; maj. gen., drag. 1643 – 44, horse Aug. – Nov. 1644; field marshal gen. Feb. – Nov. 1645; c.-in-c. Prince of Wales’s army, Nov. 1645 – Jan. 1646; lt. gen. horse (Prince of Wales’s army) Jan. – Mar. 1646; col. Regt. of Ft. Gds. (later 1st Ft. Gds.) 1656–d. Newman, Royalist Officers, 404.

Parlimentarian

WENTWORTH, Thomas (1613-65)

Associated with: Toddington, Beds.; St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by unknown artist, 1640. Reproduced in F.W. Hamilton, The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards (1874).

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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