Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet FSA, DL (6 January 1762 – 25 June 1857)[1] was a British politician and baronet.

Early life

He was the illegitimate son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre and Elizabeth FitzThomas.[2] Barrett-Lennard was educated at Downing College, Cambridge.[3]

Career

He entered the British House of Commons for Essex South in 1832 and was a Member of Parliament (MP) until 1835.[4] Barrett-Lennard was a deputy lieutenant of Essex,[5] and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. On 30 June 1801, he was created a baronet, of Belhus, in the County of Essex.[6]

Personal life

On 15 January 1787, he married firstly Dorothy St Aubyn, daughter of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet.[7] She died in 1830, and Barrett-Lennard married secondly Georgina Matilda Stirling, daughter of Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet on 20 June 1833.[7] He had seven sons and four daughters by his first wife as well as one son by his second wife.

Their fifth son, Edward Pomeroy Barrett-Lennard, emigrated to Australia where he established a large estate named after the one on which he had grown up. Barrett-Lennard died aged 96 and was at this time the most senior member of the baronetage.[7] His oldest son Thomas represented Maldon and having predeceased his father for a year,[8] Barrett-Lennard was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson Thomas.[9]

Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet

Crest Out of a Ducal Coronet Or, an Irish Wolfdog's Head per fesse Argent and Ermine charged with an Escallop, barways nebule Gules and Sable Escutcheon Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or on a fesse Gules three Fleur-de-Lis of the first (Lennard); 2nd and 3rd, per pale Argent and Gules Barry of four, counterchanged (Barrett); all within a Bordure wavy Sable Motto Pour bien desirer (The Noble Aim)

References

1. "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
2. "Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Official Website – Barrett-Lennard Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 27 April 2009.
3. "Lennard (or Barrett-Lennard), Sir Thomas, Bart (LNRT819ST)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Essex South". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
5. Dod, Charles Roger Phipps (1848). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 292.
6. "No. 15372". The London Gazette. 2 June 1801. p. 619.
7. Sylvanus, Urban (222). The Gentleman's Magazine. London: John Henry & James Parker. p. 1857.
8. Sylvanus, Urban (1956). The Gentleman's Magazine. London: John Henry & James Parker. pp. 252–253.
9. Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 744.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Essex South 1832 – 1835 With: Robert Westley Hall-Dare	Succeeded by Robert Westley Hall-Dare Thomas William Bramston
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Belhus) 1801 – 1857	Succeeded by Thomas Barrett-Lennard