Thomas St George (1615 - 1703)

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Lawson) St George — married Nov 1692 in Wanstead, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1703 at about age 88 in College of Arms, Knightrider Street, London, England

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Matthew Stepp [send private message]

Biography

The eldest child of Henry St George and his wife, Mary Dayrell Thomas was born in 1615. Apart from his marrying Clara daughter of Reverend John Pymlowe about 1646 almost nothing is known of Thomas' early life. Thomas and Clara had six children together.

With the Restoration in 1660 things appeared to return to normal and Thomas was appointed Somerset Herald on 10 August 1660. In 1669 he was sent to Dresden to invest Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony as a knight of the Garter.

Clara St George died in 1691 and was buried at Woodford on 14th November. The following year Thomas married at Wanstead in Essex, widow Clara Attwood, daughter of Sir John Lawson. Their only child was a daughter who died in infancy. In 1693 he and his brother, Henry, were appointed commissioners for the re-building of St Paul's, still not complete after the fire of 1666.

Thomas died at the College of Arms on 6 March 1703 and was buried at Woodford on the 11th.

Sources

• Thomas Woodcock, ‘St George, Sir Henry (1581–1644)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 9 Feb 2017

• Wikipedia biography [1]

• The visitation of Cambridge made in a℗ʻ (1575) Continued and enlarged with the vissitation of the county made by Henery St. George, Richmond herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camdem, Clarenceulx, in a℗ʻ 1619, with many other descents added therto Page 91 St George

• John Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain: Page 150 Dayrell of Lillingston Dayrell