Thomas Barrett Esq
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Thomas Barrett Esq (abt. 1698 - 1757)

Thomas Barrett Esq
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Husband of — married 9 Apr 1719 in Kent, Englandmap
Husband of — married about 1727 in Kent, Englandmap
Husband of — married about 1731 in Kent, Englandmap
Husband of — married after 1734 in Kent, Kent, Englandmap
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Died at about age 58 in Lee, Kent, Englandmap
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Biography

Thomas was born about 1698. He passed away in 1757.

Buried in the Lee chancel, in Ickham church, as are his four wives: [1]

  • Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir William Boys, M.D. by whom he had three sons, who died in infancy.
  • Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Peter Peters, M. D. of Canterbury, by whom he had an only daughter Elizabeth, she married Rev. William Dejovas Byrch, of Canterbury.
  • Sarah, daughter and heir of Hercules Baker, esq. by whom he had no issue.
  • Katherine, daughter and at length heir of Humphry Pudner, esq who surviving him, died in 1785, by whom he left an only son and heir Thomas Barrett, esq. who is now of Lee, and the present possessor of this seat.

Obituary for Thomas Barrett Esquire of Lee, Kent "The death of Mr Barrett is thus recorded in the Gentleman’s Magazine, vol xxvii, p 92, in the Obituary of it’s date.

'1757, Jan 29, died Thomas Barrett, Esq. of Lee, near Canterbury: a gentleman of great elegance and fine taste, to which, in a life as retired as was consistent with sociability, and an extensive knowledge of men and manners, were conjoined the utmost regularity, unfeigned piety, and the truest both conjugal and parental affection.'

Mr Barrett was born in March 1698; was admitted of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1716; and settled at Lee on his first marriage with his first cousin Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir William Boys, Knt, on 9th April, 1719, aged 21: and here he principally resided till his death in his 59th year.

He was grandson of Sir Paul Barrett, of Lee, Knt, Serjeant at Law; Recorder of Canterbury; and Member of Parliament for New Romney; who died January 9, 1686, set 53." [2]

Manor of Kingston "Sir Anthony Aucher, of Bishopsborne, who in 1647 passed away this manor, with the advowson, to Thomas Gibbon, gent. of Westcliffe, who next year settled it on his second son Richard Gibbon, M. D. whose two daughters and coheirs, Dorothy Gibbon, and Anne, wife of the Rev. John Stoning, whose window, her sister Dorothy being deceased unmarried, then became entitled to the whole of it. She left a sole daughter and heir Elizabeth, then the wife of Peter Peters, M. D. of Canterbury, who died possessed of it in 1697. The family of De la Pierre, or Peters, was originally of Flanders. The first of of them who came into England to reside, was Peter Peters, alias De la Pierre, who two years before the restoration purchased the Blackfriars, in Canterbury, where he and his descendants afterwards resided, and practised as physicians with much reputation there, they bore for their arms, Or, three roses, gules. Upon Dr. Peters's death, the inheritance of it descended to his sole daughter and heir Elizabeth, who in 1722 carried it in marriage to Thomas Barrett, esq. of Lee, whose second wife she was. He died possessed of it in 1757, upon which it descended to his only daughter and heir by her, Elizabeth, who entitled her husband the Rev. William Dejovas Byrche, to this manor, with the advowson appendant of the church of Kingston; his arms, Azure, on a chevron, argent, between three fleurs de lis, or, a cross clechee, gules, on a chief of the last, a portcullis, chained of the second, were granted to him in 1758. He died in 1792, as did his widow in 1798, possessed of it, on which it came to SamuelEgerton Brydges, esq. of Denton, who had married their only daughter Elizabeth, and he is the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.[3]

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  1. ↑ BHO. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp167-179
  2. ↑ List of Pictures at the Seat of T. B. Brydges Barrett, Esq. at Lee Priory
  3. ↑ British History Online: THE MANOR OF KINGSTON

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