Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet (c. 1605–1672) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight. He was a member of the
High Sheriff of Yorkshire and supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War
.
Biography
Gower was knighted at Whitehall on 24 June 1630, and succeeded his father,
High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1641 and 1662), and attended on the King when he was shut out of Hull. He raised a regiment of dragoons at his own expense, of which his younger brother, Doyley was colonel.[1][2] After the Restoration he served in Parliament as Member for Malton
from 1661 until his death in 1672.
Family
Gower had two wives, first, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Sir William Howard of Naworth Castle, sister to
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford; also a daughter Frances; but by his first wife he had no issue.[1]
Notes
References
- Collins, Arthur (1812). Collins's peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical, Volume 2, Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, J. Nichols and Co. T. Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, ... [and 21 others], 1812
- Sanford, John Langton and Townsend, Meredith White (1865). The great governing families of England, Volume 1, W. Blackwood and sons, 1865
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Collins's peerage of England", by Arthur Collins (1812)
Further reading
- Newman, P. R. (1993). The old service: Royalist regimental colonels and the Civil War, 1642-46, Manchester University Press ND, ISBN 978-0-7190-3752-8 p. 124: Suspicion as to his loyalty and capture in 1645.