TOMKINS, Thomas (c.1605-74), of Garnstone, Weobley and Monnington-on-Wye, Herefs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1605, 5th but 2nd. surv. s. of James Tomkins† of Monnington and Anne, da. and coh. of James Boyle of Hereford, bro. of William*.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 293. educ. M. Temple 10 Oct. 1622, called 24 June 1631.M. Temple Admiss. i. 113. m. (1) 22 Sept. 1633, Mary, da. of Sir Walter Pye* of the Mynde, Much Dewchurch, Herefs. 1s., 3da.; (2) 21 Feb. 1648 (settlement 27 Mar. 1657), Lucy, da. of Sir William Uvedale* of Wickham, Hants, wid. of Thomas Neale of Warnford, Hants. 1s. suc. bro. William Tomkins*, Dec. 1640. Kntd. 2 Jan. 1662. d. 31 Dec. 1674.Robinson, Mansions and Manors, 293; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 236; Herefs. RO, L57, bdle. 109.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Herefs. 14 June 1643 – ?46, by Oct. 1660–d.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 46; HP Commons 1660–1690, ‘Thomas Tomkyns’. Commr. array (roy.), 7 Jan. 1644;Northants. RO, FH133 unfol. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, 1660. Dep. lt. c.Aug. 1660–d.HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Thomas Tomkyns’. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663;SR. militia by 1665.Hereford Cath. Lib. 3926 (i).

Civic: freeman, Portsmouth 1668.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 359.

Parlimentarian

TOMKYNS, Thomas (c.1605-74), of Monnington-on-Wye, Herefs.

: Weobley and Herefs., Monnington-on-Wye.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

TOMKINS, Thomas (c.1605-74), of Garnstone, Weobley and Monnington-on-Wye, Herefs.

Will

not found.

Estates

at 2nd marriage acquired manors of Monnington, Byford, Church Dilwyn, Chabnor, Luntley, Garnstone; lands in Sollers Dilwyn, Yazor and Yarsop.Herefs. RO, L57/bdle. 109. In 1645, estate estimated by a visiting diarist to be £1,200, but valued at £6,330 by the Committee for Compounding, 1 May 1649.CCC 1036; Symonds, Diary, 196.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

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