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.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Somerset, Viscount Somerset

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

1. "Somerset, Sir Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
2. W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales
3. 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
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