Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet

Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet (1 January 1639 – 6 March 1685) was an English politician who sat in thei House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.

Sir Thomas Spencer, as depicted in his memorial in the Spencer Chapel of Yarnton parish church, Oxfordshire

Spencer was the son of Sir William Spencer, 2nd Baronet and his wife Constance Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park. He inherited the baronetcy of Yarnton on the death of his father in 1647.[1] His mother remarried Sir Edward Smith, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, by whom she had two sons.

In 1660, Spencer was elected Member of Parliament for Woodstock in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Woodstock in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.[2]

Spencer died at the age of 46 and is buried in the Spencer Chapel at Yarnton parish church[3] under a "noble and curious monument of white marble".[4]

Spencer married Jane Garrard, daughter of Sir John Garrard, 2nd Baronet of Lamer, Hertfordshire at St Paul's, Covent Garden on 24 January 1655.[1] They had four daughters but no son, and the baronetcy passed to a cousin.[4]

References
  1. George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900
  2. History of Parliament Online - Thomas Spencer
  3. Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 865. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  4. Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies.
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