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Thomas Burgh, 3Rd Baron Burgh Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG[1] (c. 1558–14 into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866– Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron 1926).[6] Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, for- mer mistress of King Henry VIII.[1] He was one of the 1 Ancestry peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.[2] Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord 2 Notes Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593. In [1] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scot- & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, land. On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587. [2] year. [2] George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Picker- 1889, pp. 76–77 (Google eBook) [3] ing, by whom he had a son and four daughters: [3] Cokayne 1912, p. 424. • Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c.1594 – 26 Febru- [4] Nicholls 2004. ary 1602), buried at Winchester Cathedral 19 March [5] G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, [3] 1602. Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, • Elizabeth Burgh, married George Brooke, a younger Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United King- son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, and dom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in had issue.[4] She married secondly John Byrd of 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Broxton and had issue.[1] She married thirdly Fran- Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 155 [3] cis Reade, 2nd son of Sir William Reade, of Os- [6] Baron Burgh at Cracroft’s Peerage. terley, Middlesex. There were no issue of her third marriage.[1] [7] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, • Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641), who married Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 355. Sir Drew Drury on 11 October 1604.[3] [8] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of • Frances Burgh (died before 24 Nov 1618),[1] who Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., married Francis Coppinger.[3] p. 199. [9] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, • Katherine Burgh (died April 1646), who married, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward on 28 February 1620, Thomas Knyvett,[3] son of Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603. Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue.[5] 3 References Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 Oc- [2] tober 1597. • Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete On the death of Burgh’s son, Robert, his baronies Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs II. London: St. of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell Catherine Press. p. 424. 1 2 3 REFERENCES • McKeen, David (1986). A Memory of Honour; The Life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham I. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg. pp. 700–2. • Nicholls, Mark (2004). “Brooke, George (1568– 1603)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biog- raphy (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3541. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) 3 4 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses 4.1 Text • Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Burgh%2C%203rd%20Baron%20Burgh?oldid= 631582554 Contributors: William Avery, Hiding, Bgwhite, SmackBot, BrownHairedGirl, Cydebot, Waacstats, Virgosky, Rs-nourse, Bo- leyn, Yobot, AnomieBOT, Alvin Seville, Moonraker, Lady Meg, PBS-AWB, Chrisdoyleorwell, NinaGreen, BG19bot, Frze, ChrisGualtieri and Anonymous: 1 4.2 Images • File:Quartered_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Burgh,_7th_Baron_Strabolgi,_KG.png Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/3/3f/Quartered_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Burgh%2C_7th_Baron_Strabolgi%2C_KG.png License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: Rs-nourse 4.3 Content license • Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.
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