FERMOR, Thomas (1698-1753) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 23 Mar. 1698, s. William Fermor, Bar. Leominster, and Sophia, da. Thomas Osborne, duke of Leeds. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. (MA 1717). m. (settlement 13 July 1720) Henrietta Louisa, da. John Jeffreys, 2nd Bar. Jeffreys, and Charlotte, da. Philip Herbert, 7th earl of Pembroke, 4s. (at least 2 d.v.p.), 6da. (1 d.v.p.). Collins, Peerage (1812 edn), iv. 206-7. KB 27 May 1725. d. 8 July 1753; Public Advertiser, 9 July 1753; Read’s Weekly Journal, 14 July 1753. will 23 Jan. 1752, pr. 20 July 1753. TNA, PROB 11/803.

Offices Held

Master of the horse to Queen Caroline, 1727 – 37.

Gov. of Guernsey, 1740–42; London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 July 1740. ranger, St James’s Park and Hyde Park, 1751–d. London Evening Post, 12–14 July 1753.

Col. regt. of dragoons, 1740. Daily Gazetteer (Country edition), 30 Jan. 1741.

Parlimentarian

FERMOR, Thomas (1698-1753)

Associated with: Easton Neston, Northants. and New Bond St, Westminster.Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal, 17 Oct. 1741.;

FARMER

Likenesses

oil on canvas (with Henrietta, countess of Pontefract), by Thomas Bradwell, c. 1721, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion