Thomas Lister (1688 - 1745)

Born 8 Oct 1688 in Arnoldsbiggin, Westby Hall, Gisburn, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Assheaton) Lister — married 1716 in England

Descendants

Died 22 May 1745 at age 56 in Gisburn Park, Gisburn, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Thomas Lister is Notable.

Member of Parliament 1710-1745. A Tory, he consistently voted against the Government, speaking on 7 May 1728 against a vote of credit.

He transferred the family seat from Arnolds Biggin (Westby Hall) to Gisburne Park in Gisburn, which his father had acquired from Sir John Assheton in 1697, and which he rebuilt on a grand scale in 1724.

Family

• Catherine Assheaton 1692 – 1728

Children

• Catherine Lister 1718 – 1732
• Mary Lister 1718 – 1758
• Thomas Lister Esq 1722 – 1761
• Anne Lister 1722 – 1755
• Nathaniel Lister of Armitage Park 1725 – 1793

Sources

Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster p.134 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/19781/images/dvm_GenMono004584-00124-0?pId=207

• George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 113.
• L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 230.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p11812.htm#i118114
• Cheshire, England, Extracted Parish Records

1 citation provides evidence for Name, Marriage

• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lister-thomas-1688-1745