Thomas Widdrington, MP

Family and Education bap. 19 June 1640, o.s. of Sir Thomas Widdrington, educ. G. Inn, entered 1641; Wormley, g.s. Herts.; Christ’s, Camb. 1653, unm.1

Offices Held

Freeman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1657.2

Biography Widdrington was returned under age at the general election of 1660 for Morpeth, no doubt as a compliment to his father. He was appointed to no committees in the Convention, but when his uncle Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax, was elected to the Commons delegation to Charles II, Widdrington obtained leave to accompany him. He died of a violent fever at The Hague in the same month.3

Ref Volumes: 1660-1690 Authors: M. W. Helms / Gillian Hampson / Eveline Cruickshanks Notes 1. Arch. Ael. (ser. 3), vi. 38. 2. Reg. of Freemen (Newcastle Recs. Committee iii), 74. 3. CJ, viii. 18, 52; Eg. 2146, f. 34; Voyce from the Watch Tower, 158