Thomas Tollemache

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Thomas Tollemache
Member of Parliament
for Chippenham
In office
January 1692 – June 1694
Governor of Portsmouth
In office
1690–1694
Member of Parliament
for Malmesbury
In office
January 1689 – February 1690
Personal details
Born1651
Lieutenant-General
UnitColdstream Regiment of Foot Guards
Battles/wars

Athlone; Limerick; Steenkerque; Landen; Camaret
;

Lieutenant-General Thomas Tollemache (c. 1651 – 12 June 1694) was an English Army officer and politician. Beginning his military career in 1673, in 1686 he resigned his commission in protest at the commissioning of Catholic officers into the Army by James II of England. A supporter of military intervention by the Protestant William of Orange against James II, in early 1688 he joined a regiment of the Anglo-Scots Brigade, a mercenary unit in the Dutch States Army
.

In November 1688, he accompanied William to England in the

Ireland during the Nine Years' War, as well as being appointed Governor of Portsmouth in 1690 and elected for Chippenham in 1692. In 1694, he was badly wounded at the Battle of Camaret; he died of his injuries on 12 June and was buried in St Mary's Church, Helmingham
.

Early life

Thomas Tollemache was born in 1651, second son of

John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale. Tollemache never married.[1]

Military career

Helmingham Hall, Tollemache's family home

According to his own account, Tollemache spent several years travelling in Europe before returning to England in 1668, when he attended Queens' College, Cambridge, followed by legal training at the Inner Temple. Details of his early military career are unclear; by 1673 he was based in Germany during the Franco-Dutch War, where he served with John Churchill.[1]

In 1678, he was commissioned into the

Mary II of England.[1]

He was also associated with the Association of Protestant Officers, whose members included Trelawny, Churchill and Kirke, all of whom opposed James.

MP for Malmesbury in 1689.[3]

His regiment was posted to

Athlone and Limerick. Following the Treaty of Limerick which ended the war, he returned to Flanders where he took part in the battles of Steenkirk and Landen.[1]

Death

In 1694 Tollemache led an assault on the port of

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban reinforced the garrison and strengthened the defences. The ensuing Battle of Camaret was disastrous for the English who were repulsed with heavy losses; Tollemache was wounded and later died of his injuries in Plymouth on 12 June 1694.[3] He was buried in the church of St Mary's at Helmingham.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wauchope 2004.
  2. ^ Holmes 2009, p. 136.
  3. ^ a b Hayton 2002.

Sources

  • Hayton, DW (2002). TOLLEMACHE, Hon. Thomas (c.1650-94), of Leicester Fields, Westminster in "The History of Parliament; the House of Commons 1690-1715. Boydell & Brewer.
  • Holmes, Richard (2009). Marlborough; England's Fragile Genius. Harper Press.
    ISBN 978-0007225729
    .
  • Wauchope, Piers (2004). "Tollemache , Thomas (c.1651–1694)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27500. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for Malmesbury
1689–1690
With: Charles Godfrey
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for Chippenham
1692–1694
With: Alexander Popham
 Succeeded by
Richard Long
Military offices
Preceded by Governor of Portsmouth
1690–1694 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel of the Coldstream Guards
1690–1694 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Robert Holmes
Governor of the Isle of Wight

1693
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