Sir Thomas Gresham, Kt.

Biography

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Sir Thomas Gresham was the second surviving son of William Gresham of Titsey, Surrey, and his wife Beatrice Guybon. In 1534, William's father, Sir John Gresham, had purchased the manor of Titsey, which was inherited by William, who died in 1579, leaving the manor to his widow, who at her own death in 1604 bequeathed it to her son Sir Thomas, who was knighted by King James I at his coronation, 23 July 1603. It appears that the estate passed to Sir Thomas rather than his older brother Sir William Gresham because William had already been left substantial property in 1579 by his uncle, the Elizabethan financier Sir Thomas Gresham.[1]

Thomas was born some time after 1555 and was admitted to St Alban Hall, Oxford, about 1572.[2] In 1587 he married Mary, daughter of John Lennard and widow of Guildford Walsingham. Their union produced six sons and four daughters: [3]

1. (Sir) John - b. 1588, bur. 26 May 1643, m. 1612 Elizabeth Bishop
2. (Sir) Edward - b. at 1590, d. 1647, m. (1) Mary Clerke (2) Mary Campion
3. Thomas - b. 1593, d. aft 1660, m. Frances Strickland
4. William - bp. 26 Feb 1595, bur. 12 April 1596
5. Harry - bp. 15 Aug 1598, bur. 6 Jan 1601
6. Leonard - bp 5 Feb 1599, d. young
7. Mary - bur. 29 August 1638, m. 22 June 1619 Sir Anthony Hinton
8. Beatrice - bp. 1 July 1593, bur 4 Oct. 1630, m. (London) 31 May 1621 Sir Thomas Holmden
9. Elizabeth - bp 15 August 1594, bur. 20 August 1633 (Capel), m. 28 May 1621 Sir Richard Cowper (Cooper)
10. Hester - bp. 26 Mar 1597, bur. 4 Jan 1638 unmarried

On 15 December 1612, Sir Thomas Gresham settled the manor of Titsey and its advowson on his eldest son John and John's wife Elizabeth, with remainder to his younger sons, of whom Edward inherited after him. Sir Thomas died 1 July 1630.[4] His Will was proved 5 July 1630.[5]

Sir Thomas Gresham sat in Parliament between 1604 and 1625. In 1626, he was a Collector of King Charles I's Forced Loan in Surrey.

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gresham-90

1. History of Parliament Online: Gresham, William (1555-1624) HOP
2. "Greenhill-Gysby." Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714. Ed. Joseph Foster. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891. 600-625. British History Online. Web. 19 February 2021. BHO
3. Gower, Granville William Gresham Leveson. Genealogy of the Family of Gresham. Mitchell & Hughes, 1883. p. 171
4. Gower, p. 12. p. 12
5. Gower, p. 40. p. 40
6. Surrey
7. Gower, Granville William Gresham Leveson. Genealogy of the Family of Gresham. . . Mitchell & Hughes, 1883. Gresham
8. Sir Thomas Gresham; History of Parliament Online
9. British History online: Titsey
10. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica New Series Vol II, 1877, Will of Thomas Gresham, pp. 12-24. Gresham Wills Thomas Gresham Will