STAFFORD, Sir Thomas (1577-1655), of The Savoy, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. Dec. 1577, illegit. s. of Sir George Carew I* (d.1629) of The Savoy and Clopton, Warws. and da. of one Cavannagh, w. of one Stafford.Lismore Pprs. ed. A.B. Grosart (ser. 1), ii. 103-4, 317. educ. G. Inn 1619.GI Admiss. m. aft. 4 Feb. 1636, Mary, da. of Sir Henry Woodhouse† of Hickling, Norf., wid. of Sir Robert Killigrew* of Kempton, Mdx., s.p.Private Corresp. of Jane, Lady Cornwallis ed. Braybrooke, 284. Kntd. 6 Oct. 1611.CSP Ire. 1608-10, p. 438; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 151. d. by 20 Feb. 1655.PROB 11/247, f. 243.

Offices Held

Capt. of horse [I] 1600 – 04, 1625–9.CSP Carew 1515–74, lviii; CSP Ire. 1615–25, p. 55; 1625–32, p. 196; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 19.

Gent. usher of the privy chamber to Queen Anne by 1612–18,LC2/4/6, f. 26; SP14/86/180; E315/107, f. 15; LR7/80/2, unfol. comptroller 1618–19;LC2/5, f. 33. gent. usher to Queen Henrietta Maria by 1627,LR5/57, f. 3. treas. by 1642;Lismore Pprs. (ser. 2), v. 82. master of the Ordnance (acting) 1629–34.CSP Dom. 1628–9, pp. 507, 557; O.F.G. Hogg, Royal Arsenal, 1037.

Parlimentarian

STAFFORD, Sir Thomas (1577-1655), of The Savoy, Mdx.

Main residence: The Savoy, Mdx.

Author

J.P.F.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

STAFFORD, Sir Thomas (1577-1655)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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