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Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton KG (10 March 1607 – 16 May 1667), styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was a 17th century English statesman, a staunch supporter of Charles II who would rise to the position of Lord High Treasurer after the English Restoration. His term as treasurer began concurrently with the assumption of power by the Clarendon Ministry, but his death would precede Lord Clarendon's impeachment from the House of Commons, after which the Cabal Ministry took over government.
Lord Southampton, having acceded to the earldom in 1624, attended St. John's College, Cambridge.[1] At first, he sided with the Parliament supporters upon the subjects leading to the English Civil War, but upon his realisation of their leaders' violence, he became a loyal supporter of Charles I. While remaining very loyal to the deposed monarch, he still vied for peace, representing the king at several peace conferences (as Encyclopædia Britannica notes, he attended at least two conferences: one in 1643, and one at Uxbridge in 1645). He was allowed to live within England, having paid the Commonwealth over £6000.
Several months after the Restoration, Lord Southampton was appointed Lord High Treasurer (8 September 1660), a position in which he would serve until his death. As the Encyclopædia Britannica notes, Lord Southampton "was remarkable for his freedom from any taint of corruption and for his efforts in the interests of economy and financial order," a noble if not completely objective view of his work as the keeper of the nation's finances.
Lord Southampton's name lives on in London; both Southampton Row and Southampton Street, Holborn are named after him.
[edit] Family
He was the only surviving son of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and his wife Elizabeth Vernon.
He married three times and had three daughters. His first wife was French Huguenot Rachel de Massue (1603- 16 February 1640), the aunt of Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway. Upon his death in 1667, his two daughters by Rachel, Elizabeth Wriothesley, Viscountess Campden and Rachel Wriothesley, the wife of William Russell, Lord Russell received all of their father's property. This property eventually passed to the Russell's only son, the 2nd Duke of Bedford.
His second marriage was to Lady Elizabeth Leigh, daughter of Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester from whom he inherited the title Earl of Chichester on Leigh's death.[2] Their only child, Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley would, firstly, marry Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland and upon his decease, she, secondly, married Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Wriothesley, Thomas in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ thepeerage.com
- ^ Leslie Stephen, ed. Dictionary of National Biography. 38. pp. 263. http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_38.djvu/269. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
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Wriothesley, Thomas (4th Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer)
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Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton born 1607
died May 16, 1667, London, Eng
major supporter of both Charles I and Charles II of England.
The only surviving son of the 3rd Earl, Thomas attended St. John’s College, Cambridge. When the dispute began between Charles I and Parliament, he took the side of the latter, but soon the violence of its leaders drove him to support Charles, one of whose most loyal advisers he remained thereafter. -
Family seat: The Manor of Botley ??????
Botley good for golf -N.E of Southhampton NW of Portsmouth
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see wot’s left of those lands; all gone because of debts incured http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=botley&btnG=Search&sll=53.098145%2C-2.443696&sspn=7.578125%2C10.266489&z=11&t=null&f=q&output=js&hl=en
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Warrington has the following as a note to ‘Southampton’s parks and lands’: “Titchfield House, erected by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, on the site of an abbey of Premonstratensians, granted to him with their estates, 29th Henry VIII. Upon the death of his descendant, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, the Lord Treasurer, without male issue, the house and manor were allottes to his eldest daughter Elizabeth, wife of Edmund Noel, first Earl of Gainsborough; and their only son dying s.p.m., the property devolved to his sister Elizabeth, married to Henry Bentinck, first Duke of Portland, whose grandson, the third duke, alienated it to Mr Delme. The duke’s second title is taken from this place.”
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see above for 1st entre
my Lord Treasurer (who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, with a great company of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) go up to the Treasury Offices, and take possession thereof;
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Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton
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References in the diary
- 1662
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Apr: 26
Aug: 25
Nov: 6, 14, 18, 19
Dec: 8, 9, 10, 11, 29
- 1663
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Jan: 19
Mar: 21
Apr: 18, 20
May: 2, 15
Jun: 25
Sep: 8, 12
Nov: 6, 19, 23
- 1664
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Feb: 8, 29
Mar: 14
Jul: 14
Oct: 2
Nov: 9, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23
- 1665
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Apr: 1, 7, 12, 18, 19, 23, 24, 28, 29
May: 3, 5, 18
Jun: 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 24, 26
Jul: 10
Aug: 14
Sep: 3, 9
- 1666
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Feb: 10, 12, 14, 19, 25
Mar: 2
Apr: 27
May: 4, 7, 9, 15, 30, 31
Jun: 13, 15
Jul: 3
Aug: 1, 3, 6, 8, 26
Sep: 7, 23, 24
Oct: 7, 21
Nov: 5, 23, 24, 25
Dec: 3
- 1667
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Jan: 16
Feb: 17, 24
Mar: 4, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17