Thomas Stucley (MP)
Sir Thomas Stucley (24 August 1620 – 20 September 1663) of
Royalist army in the English Civil War
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Biography
Stucley was the eldest son of John Stucley of Affeton,
J.P. for Devon from 1643 to 1646 and was a distinguished soldier in the Royalist army during the Civil War. He was a major of horse from 1643 to 1646 and was a colonel by the time of the surrender of Exeter in that year.[1]
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commissioner for loyal and indigent officers in 1662 and commissioner for corporations from 1662 to 1663.[1]
Stucley died at the age of 43 and was buried at West Worlington.[1]
Stucley married in about 1642, Elizabeth Sydenham, daughter of Sir Ralph Sydenham of Youlston, and had two sons and four daughters. His sons died young, and his estate eventually went to his brother Lewis Stucley, a "famous independent" preacher.[1][2]