Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh
| Sir Thomas Burgh | |
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| Baron Borough of Gainsborough Baron Strabolgi Baron Cobham of Sterborough |
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Quartered arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, KG
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| Spouse(s) | Frances Vaughan |
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| Father | William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh |
| Mother | Lady Katherine Clinton |
| Born | c.1558 |
| Died | 14 October 1597 Newry, County Down, Ireland |
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG[1] (c. 1558–14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII.[1] He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.[2]
Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593. In 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.[2]
Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Pickering, by whom he had a son and four daughters:[3]
- Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c.1594 – 26 February 1602), buried at Winchester Cathedral 19 March 1602.[3]
- Elizabeth Burgh, married George Brooke, a younger son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, and had issue.[4] She married secondly John Byrd of Broxton and had issue.[1] She married thirdly Francis Reade,[3] 2nd son of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Middlesex. There were no issue of her third marriage.[1]
- Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641),[citation needed] who married Sir Drew Drury on 11 October 1604.[3]
- Frances Burgh (died before 24 Nov 1618),[1] who married Francis Coppinger.[3]
- Katherine Burgh (died April 1646),[citation needed] who married, on 28 February 1620, Thomas Knyvett,[3] son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue.[5]
Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.[2]
On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).[6]
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, 1889, pp. 76–77 (Google eBook)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Cokayne 1912, p. 424.
- ↑ Nicholls 2004.
- ↑ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 155
- ↑ [1] Baron Burgh at Cracroft's Peerage.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 355.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., p. 199.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603.
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597 |
Succeeded by Earl of Essex |
| Preceded by
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Ambassador to Scotland 1594 |
Succeeded by Unknown |
| Preceded by
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Governor of Brill, Flanders 1587–1597 |
Succeeded by Unknown |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by | Baron Burgh 1584–1597 |
Succeeded by Robert Burgh |
| Preceded by | Baron Strabolgi 1584–1597 |
Succeeded by Robert Burgh |
| Preceded by | Baron Cobham of Sterborough 1584–1597 |
Succeeded by Robert Burgh |
