Mortimer George Thoyts

Mortimer George Thoyts (1804–1875) was a Victorian High Sheriff of Berkshire and a Captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia.

Mortimer was born 6 November 1804 at Sulhamstead House in Berkshire, the only son of William Thoyts of that place and his wife, Jane, the daughter and co-heiress of the famous city grocer, Abram Newman.[1] of Mount Bures in Suffolk. He inherited the Sulhamstead estate in 1817 and became Captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia on 15 June 1832 and resigned 13 March 1833.[1] In 1839, he was pricked High Sheriff of Berkshire. He was presented by the electors of Berkshire with a fine portrait of himself, painted by J. Horsley, R.A., for the work he had done politically, although he refused to represent the county in Parliament.[1]

He married thrice:

M. G. Thoyts died on 18 January 1875 at his home and was buried in St. Michael's Churchyard at Sulhamstead Bannister.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Thoyts, Emma Elizabeth (1897). History of the Royal Berkshire Militia. J. Hawkes.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley
High Sheriff of Berkshire
1839
Succeeded by
Henry Hippisley
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