Sir Thomas Boothby Skrymsher of Tooley and Norbury

Family and Education

• b. ?1698,
• 1st s. of Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park by his 1st w. Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Charles Skrymsher of Norbury.
• educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 16 Mar. 1715, aged 16.
• m. 17 Jan. 1721, Anne, da. of Sir Hugh Clopton of New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, 5s. 3da.;
• assumed add. name of Skrymsher under will of his maternal gd.-fa. by 1721.

Offices Held

• Register gen. of all trading ships belonging to Gt. Britain 1736-39.

Biography

Descended from a London merchant who purchased Tooley in the seventeenth century, Skrymsher was related to the Walpoles through his wife. Defeated for Leicester as a Whig in 1722, he was returned at a by-election in January 1727, but lost his seat at the general election of that year, petitioning unsuccessfully. In 1736 he was given a place under the commissioners of the customs, which he lost three years later.

He died 6 June 1751.

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bo...

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"Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park, grand-nephew of a powerful and wealthy baronet, that he was one of the fathers of English sport. An issue of The Field newspaper for 1875 contains an engraving of a hunting horn then in the possession of the late Master of the Cheshire Hounds, and upon the horn is the inscription: “Thomas Boothby, Esq., Tooley Park, Leicester. With this horn he hunted the first pack of fox hounds then in England fifty-five years.” He died in 1752. His eldest son took the maternal name of Skrymsher, and under the title of Thomas Boothby Skrymsher became M.P. for Leicester, and an important person in his day."

http://www.readcentral.com/chapters/Clement-Shorter/Immortal-Memori...

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