Thomas (Harris) Harries 1st Bt (1550 - 1628)

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Sir Thomas Harris was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Sir Thomas Harris of Tong Castle, Salop, 1st Bt was the eldest of four sons of John Harries, of Cruckton in Shropshire and Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Prowde of Sutton.

He was married to Eleanor, daughter of Roger Gifford, physician to Queen Elizabeth I. The couple had one son, Francis, and three daughters, but Francis and one of the daughters predeceased their father, and the baronetcy became extinct on Sir Thomas's death on 18 February 1628. Tong Castle passed to the family of his daughter Elizabeth, who married William Pierrepont.

Sources

• Shropshire Parish Registers: Lichfield Diocese, Vol. 4, Tong Register

• Page iii: "Tong passed by purchase to Sir Thomas Harris, Bart., whose daughter carried it to the Pierreponts, afterwards Dukes of Kingston, the last of whom, in 1764, sold it..."

• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623, The Publications of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1869-)

• Vol. 28, Page 224: "Thomas Harris de Tonge Castell in com. Salop Baronettus Serviens ad legem et Justiciarius pacis in eodem comitatu 1623" (English:The Sergeant of the law, and the Justice of peace in the same county.)

• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 24
• wikipedia: Sir Thomas Harries, 1st Baronet
• HARRIS, Thomas II (1550-1628), of Lincoln's Inn, London; later of Tonge Castle, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981