Thomas Hardcastle Sykes
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Thomas Hardcastle Sykes (15 February 1833 – 25 April 1901) was an English bleacher and businessman and was High Sheriff of Cheshire.
Sykes was born at
Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire and was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1899.[2]
He was also a captain in the 20th Cheshire Royal Volunteers.
Sykes lived at Cringle House on Schools Hill Cheadle, where he died aged 68.[3] He was buried in a family vault with his wife in Cheadle St Mary's Parish Church graveyard
Sykes married Mary Platt, daughter of
Alan Sykes continued the family business and was MP for Knutsford. Sykes brother Richard Sykes was a pioneering rugby player and landowner in Dakota. His nephew Percy Sykes
was a soldier and explorer of Central Asia.
References
- ^ Frederick Temple - Rugby School Register
- ^ "No. 26945". The London Gazette. 8 March 1898. p. 1414.
- ^ the Peerage.com