Thomas Hesketh MP (abt. 1548 - 1605)

Born about 1548 in Aughton Hall, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England

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Thomas Hesketh MP is Notable.

Henry Stanley, Esq., died in 1591, aged 83, and had a most magnificent and imposing funeral, which was solemnized at Ormskirk (the Bickerstaffe Chapel at the north side of the Church being the family burial place of the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe and Aughton) with all the gloomy pomp and pageantry of woe, almost rivalling in grandeur and solemnity the funeral of Earl Edward, the Bountiful, in 1572, in the same venerable edifice. He left issue, Edward, James, and Jane, the latter of whom became the wife of Gabriel Hesketh, Esq., of Aughton, upon whom’ was settled in remainder by will, dated 1595, a moiety of the large estates of his grandfather, Sir John Southworth, of Southworth and Salmesbury, knight, whose daughter Margaret married Bartholomew Hesketh, Esq., of Aughton (a cadet of the Rufford House). This Bartholomew Hesketh, whose son Gabriel (called after his grandfather) married Jane Stanley, of Aughton, was the son and heir of Gabriel Hesketh, of Aughton, whose second son was Sir Thomas Heskett or Hesketh, of Whitehill, in Lancashire, and of Haslington, near York. This Sir Thomas Hesketh was bencher and reader of Gray’s Inn, London, in 1588, and was recorder of Lancaster and M.P. for that borough in 1597, attorney of the Court of Wards of Liveries to Queen Elizabeth and James I., and was knighted in 1603. In Westminster Abbey, against the screen of the choir, there is a fine old monument to his memory, whereon lies the effigy of a gentleman at full length in a tufted gown, and underneath, upon the base, was a lady kneeling, which figures represent Sir Thomas and Julien, his wife, the latter of whom caused the monument to be erected. Sir Thomas died October 1 5th, 1605, sine prole, and devised his property to his brother Cuthbert.—Henry Stanley, Esq., was succeeded by his eldest son

• Thomas was born in 1548. He passed away in 1605.
• He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where there is a monument to his memory on the north side of the choir in alabaster and coloured stone^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hesketh-thomas-1548-1605

• The Chetham Society. Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester (Printed for the Chetham Society, Manchester, England, 1893) New Series

• Vol. 28, Page 165-6: "The Will of Sir Thomas Kesketh, Knt., Attorney of the Court of Wards" Dated Sept. 29, 1599. Proved at York, Sept. 1, 1606.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hesketh