Thomas Widdrington
Sir Thomas Widdrington
at various times between 1640 and 1664. He was the speaker of the House of Commons in 1656.Life
Widdrington was the son of Lewis Mauntlaine, alias Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, near
Stamfordham, Northumberland. He was a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1617 and was awarded BA in 1621. He entered Gray's Inn in 1619 and was called to the bar in 1625. He succeeded to the estate of his father in 1630. He was Recorder of Berwick from 1631 to 1658 and Recorder of York from 1638 to 1658. He was knighted at York on 1 April 1639.[2]
In April 1640 Widdrington was elected
Charles II was restored.[3] In 1660, he was elected MP for York in the Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for Berwick again in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.[2]
Widdrington founded a school at
Stamfordham, Northumberland, He wrote Analecta Eboracensia; some Remaynes of the city of York which was not published until 1877, when it was edited with introduction and notes by the Rev. Caesar Caine.[3]
Widdrington died in 1664.[2]
Family
Widdrington married Frances Fairfax, a daughter of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron and had five daughters, including Ursula, who married Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth, and a son. However, his son Thomas died in 1660 when MP for Morpeth. The estate at Cheeseburn Grange passed briefly to Widdrington's brother Henry and then to their brother Ralph.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Speaker Widdrington, 1656-1658". Baz Manning. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d History of Parliament Widdrington, Sir Thomas (c. 1600–64) of Cheeseburn Grange, Stamfordham, Northumberland
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Widdrington, Barons". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 620. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the