Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG[1] (c. 1558–14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII.[1] He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572. (aged 14?)[2]

Sir Thomas Burgh
Baron Borough of Gainsborough Baron Strabolgi Baron Cobham of Sterborough
Quartered arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, KG
Born	c.1558
Died	14 October 1597 Newry, County Down, Ireland
Spouse(s)	Frances Vaughan
Issue Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh Elizabeth Burgh Anne Burgh Frances Burgh Katherine Burgh
Father	William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh
Mother	Lady Katherine Clinton

Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593.

In February 1593, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. Burgh was met by Lord Seton and banqueted at Seton Palace.[3] James VI of Scotland was in the north and Burgh had to wait in Edinburgh until the 14 March when he saw the king and discussed the risks of Spanish invasion. On 18 March he had an audience with Anne of Denmark and received "ill grace both of words and looks".[4] Burgh and the resident diplomat Robert Bowes borrowed £300 sterling from three Edinburgh merchants, Robert Jousie, Thomas Foulis, and John Porterfield in order to reward potential supporters of English policy.[5]

On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.[2]

Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Pickering, by whom he had a son and four daughters:[6]

• Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c.1594 – 26 February 1602), buried at Winchester Cathedral 19 March 1602.[6]
• Elizabeth Burgh, married George Brooke, a younger son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, and had issue.[7] She married secondly John Byrd of Broxton and had issue.[1] She married thirdly Francis Reade,[6] 2nd son of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Middlesex. There were no issue of her third marriage.[1]
• Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641), who married Sir Drew Drury on 11 October 1604.[6]
• Frances Burgh (died before 24 Nov 1618),[1] who married Francis Coppinger.[6]
• Katherine Burgh (died April 1646), who married, on 28 February 1620, Thomas Knyvett,[6] son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue.[8]

Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.[2]

In November 1613 his widow Frances, Lady Burgh, was given an allowance of £500 and went to join the household of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia at Heidelberg.[9]

On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).[10]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

16. Sir Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh 8. Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh 17. Margaret Ros 4. Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh 18. Thomas Cobham, 5th Baron Cobham 9. Anne Cobham 19. Lady Anne Stafford 2. William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh 20. Sir Robert Tyrwhit[11] 10. Sir William Tyrwhit[1] 21. Elizabeth Waterton[11] 5. Agnes Tyrwhit 22. Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough[11] 11. Anne Constable[1] 23. Agnes Wentworth 1. Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh 24. John Clinton, 7th Baron Clinton 12. Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton 25. Elizabeth Morgan 6. Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln 26. Sir Edward Poynings 13. Mary Poynings 3. Lady Katherine Clinton 28. Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet[12] 14. Sir John Blount 29. Anne Croft[12] 7. Elizabeth Blount 30. Sir Hugh Pershall[13] 15. Catherine Pershall 31. Isabel Stanley[13]

Notes

1. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
2. George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, 1889, pp. 76–77 (Google eBook)
3. Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 65.
4. Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 71.
5. Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 75-6.
6. Cokayne 1912, p. 424.
7. Nicholls 2004.
8. G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 155
9. Norman McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 489.
10. Baron Burgh at Cracroft's Peerage.
11. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 355.
12. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., p. 199.
13. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603.

References

• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. II. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 424.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• McKeen, David (1986). A Memory of Honour; The Life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham. I. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg. pp. 700–2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Nicholls, Mark (2004). "Brooke, George (1568–1603)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3541. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Political offices
Preceded by William Russell	Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597	Succeeded by Earl of Essex
Preceded by Unknown	Ambassador to Scotland 1594	Succeeded by Unknown
Preceded by Unknown	Governor of Brill, Flanders 1587–1597	Succeeded by Unknown
Peerage of England
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Burgh 1584–1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Strabolgi 1584–1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Cobham of Sterborough 1584–1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh