Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

Sir Thomas Burgh
Baron Borough of Gainsborough
Baron Strabolgi
Baron Cobham of Sterborough

Quartered arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, KG
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
Born c.1558
Died 14 October 1597
Newry, County Down, Ireland

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.[2]

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 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. 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:[3]

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

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).[6]

Ancestry

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cokayne 1912, p. 424.
  4. Nicholls 2004.
  5. 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
  6. Baron Burgh at Cracroft's Peerage.
  7. 1 2 3 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.
  8. 1 2 A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., p. 199.
  9. 1 2 The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603.

References

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
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