Family and Education
b. 30 July 1585, 1st. s. of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote and 2nd wife Constance, da. and heir of Richard Kingsmill† of Burghclere and Highclere, Hants, bro. of Francis† and Sir Richard*.Warws. RO, L6/1154; Dugdale, Warws. i. 506; Vis. Warws. 1682-3 (Harl. Soc. lxii), 93-4. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1601; L. Inn 1602; travelled abroad (France), c. 1608-9.Al. Ox..; L. Inn Admiss. i. 134; J. Stoye, Eng. Travellers Abroad (1989), 39-40. m. settlement 1 Oct. 1614 (with £2,000), Alice, da. and h. of Thomas Spencer of Claverdon, Warws., 6s. (1 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.); suc. fa. 16 July 1605.Warws. RO, L6/1156; L6/1154. Kntd. by 20 Nov. 1605.PROB11/106, f. 205v. d. 10 Dec. 1640.Charlecote par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Warws. c.1607–24 Feb. 1640.SP14/33, f. 63v; C231/5 p. 370. Sheriff, 1611–12, 1632–3.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 147. Warden, 12 Nov. 1611.Warws. RO, L6/1624. Capt. militia horse by 1616.Coventry RO, A79. Commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 3 June 1616–23 Jan. 1640;C181/2, f. 259v; C181/5, ff. 4v, 141v. subsidy, Warws. by 1621, 1624, 1628–9;SP14/123/78. mines dispute, Bedworth, Warws. 1622–4.APC, 1621–3, p. 348; 1623–5, pp. 197–8. Dep. lt. Warws. by 16 Dec. 1624–d.SP14/178/7, 33; CSP Dom. 1639, p. 19. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 61. swans, midland cos. and Welsh borders 1627; Staffs. and Warws. 1635, 1638; Avon navigation, 1636.C181/3, f. 227; 181/4, f. 199; 181/5, f. 91; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 6.

Civic: recorder, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warws. 6 Oct. 1628 – d.; j.p. 23 Dec. 1628–d. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, BRU 2/3, pp. 4, 7.

: of Charlecote, Warws.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on copper, W. Larkin, c.1609-10;NT, Charlecote Park. oil on canvas, unknown, c.1620-5;NT, Charlecote Park. oil on canvas, unknown, c.1620-5;NT, Charlecote Park. fun. monument, attrib. N. Stone, Charlecote church, Warws.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LUCY, Sir Thomas (1585-1640), of Charlecote, Warws.

Will
22 Sept. 1639, pr. 18 Feb. 1641.PROB11/185, f. 153v.
Estates
at marriage, Charlecote manor, Charlecote rectory and lands in Charlecote parish, Cherington manor, lands in Hampton Lucy, Warws.; Little Sutton manor, Little Sutton Park, Tenbury Wells, Worcs.; Rochford manor, Kingston manor, lands in Sturmy Sutton, Herefs.; lands in Huckford Middleton, Salop.Warws. RO, L6/1156. On d. manors and lands in eight counties, worth over £3,500 p.a.A. Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warws. 1620-60 (Cambridge, 1987), 34.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Presented Michael Wenman alias Wood, 18 Mar. 1618, Michael Walford, 2 Sept. 1626 to Charlecote; Thomas Rogers, 10 May 1636 to Hampton Lucy; John Harris, 10 Oct. 1636 to Cherington, Warws.; Edmund Clent to Rochford, Herefs.TNA, IND17003; Corpus Christi Oxford, MS 206; Worcs. Archives, 778:7324/ BA 2442/182, 371, 480, 493.
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