WESTERN, Thomas (c.1693-1733), of Preston, Suss.

Constituency	Dates
Sudbury	1715 – 22

Family and Education

b. c. 1693, s. and h. of Thomas Western jun. of London, merchant, by Ann, da. of Capt. Fisher. educ. St. Catherine’s, Camb. 1708; G. Inn 1708; I. Temple 1710. m. Mary, da. of Sir Richard Shirley, 2nd Bt., sis. and coh. of Sir Richard Shirley, 3rd Bt., of Preston, Suss., 1s. suc. cos. to Rivenhall, Essex, 1730.

Address

Main residence: Preston, Suss.

biography text

Western was the grandson of an ironmaster, who died in 1707, said to be worth £200,000.1Luttrell, vi. 130. Himself a London merchant, he acquired through his wife the estates of the Shirleys, buying her sister’s moiety in 1721 for £6,275.2Horsfall, Suss. i. 169. Returned unopposed in 1715 as a Whig for Sudbury, he seconded the Address 17 Dec. 1718, but voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. He did not stand again, dying 7 Apr. 1733, aged about 40.3C. F. Smith, ‘The Western family of Rivenhall’, Essex Rev. x. 8. His great-grandson was Charles Callis Western, M.P., created Lord Western.

Author

R.R.S.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Luttrell, vi. 130.
2. Horsfall, Suss. i. 169.
3. C. F. Smith, ‘The Western family of Rivenhall’, Essex Rev. x. 8.