Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset
Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset (1579[1]–1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1626.
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Somerset was the third son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester.[2]
In 1601, Somerset was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire.[3] He became a member of Gray's Inn on 7 August 1604.[2] In 1604 he was re-elected MP for Monmouthshire and sat until 1611.[3] He was knighted as Knight of Bath on 5 January 1605. In December 1626, he was raised to Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Somerset of Cashel.[2]
Somerset died in 1651 and the title became extinct.[2]
Somerset married Eleanor de Barry, daughter of David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant.[2] She was the widow of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, who died in November 1614.
References
- "Somerset, Sir Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England | ||
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Preceded by Henry Herbert John Arnold |
Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire 1601–1611 With: Henry Morgan 1601 Sir John Herbert 1604–1611 |
Succeeded by Walter Montagu William Jones |