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Family and Education
bap. 2 Feb. 1613, 1st s. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Cleveland (d. 25 Mar. 1667), and Anne, da. of Sir John Crofts† of Little Saxham, Suff.Beds. Par. Regs. ed. F.G. Emmison (Bedford, 1931-53), pp. xxiii. 8; CP. educ. privately; travelled abroad (France, Spanish Netherlands, United Provinces) 1630-1.CSP Dom. 1629-31, p. 516. m. bef. 11 Mar. 1658, Philadelphia (d. 1696), 5th da. of Sir Ferdinando Carey, 1da.CP. styled. Lord Wentworth, 5 Feb. 1626; KB 1 Feb. 1626;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 161. summ. to Lords in fa.’s barony 3 Nov. 1640. d. 1 Mar. 1665.HMC 6th Rep. 364.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Beds. 1634 – aft.42, Aug. 1660–d.Keeler, Long Parl. 385; C231/7, p. 29. Dep. lt. c.1635–42, 1660–d.SP29/11, ff. 144, 146. Commr. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. 1635-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/5, ff. 3v, 217v. Beds. 6 July 1640;C181/5, f. 179v. sewers, 1636;C181/5, f. 37v. Bedford Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 147. array (roy.), Beds. 15 Aug. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. rebels’ estates (roy.), 8 Sept. 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 70.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army, Apr. 1639-aft. Nov. 1640.HMC Rutland, i. 506; CSP Dom. 1640–1, pp. 5, 257, 258; 1641–43, p. 261. Maj.-gen. of dragoons (roy.), Feb.-aft. Apr. 1643.P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers (New York and London, 1981), 404. Col. of horse, regt. of prince of Wales, 5 Feb. 1644–?46. Sgt.-maj.-gen. of horse, 14 May 1644; maj.-gen. 8 Aug.-14 Nov. 1644.Symonds, Diary, 49–50, 152; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 207–8. Marshal of the field, W. Country by June 1645–9 Jan. 1646;CCSP i. 269; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 506. gen. of horse, 15 Jan.-14 Mar. 1646.Clarendon, Hist. iv. 130–1; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. pt. iv. i. 113. Col. of ft. (later 1st Ft. Gds.) c.June 1656–d.Clarendon, Hist. vi. 43; F.W. Hamilton, The Origin and Hist. of the First or Grenadier Guards (1874), i. 7, 9, 75.

Central: member, council of war (roy.), 1643.Harl. 6851, f. 132; Harl. 6852, ff. 79, 86, 89, 92, 95v. Cllr. prince of Wales, June 1646–? Amb. to Denmark, 15 Apr. 1653-bef. July 1654.CCSP ii. 192–3; HMC Ormonde, n.s. i. 295–6; HMC Hodgkin, 122–3; Nicholas Pprs. ii. 78. PC, Aug. 1654, June 1660–d.Nicholas Pprs. ii. 80; Dering Diaries and Pprs. 44.

Civic: burgess, Bedford by 1648-aft. 1649.Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 1, 3, 18.

Court: gent. of bedchamber to Charles II by May 1649–d.HMC Pepys, 255; CCSP ii. 455; G.S. Steinman, ‘Mems. preserved at Bruges of King Charles the Second’s residence in that city’, Archaeologia, xxxv. 336; Sainty and Bucholz, Royal Household, i. 8, 183.

Parlimentarian
WENTWORTH, Thomas, Lord Wentworth (1613-65), of Toddington, Beds.
: Lord Wentworth (1613-65), of Toddington, Beds. 1613 – 65.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, family group, A. Van Dyck, c.1636;Earl of Strafford colln. oils, unknown, 1640.Hamilton, Grenadier Guards, i. 7.

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Commons 1640-1660
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WENTWORTH, Thomas, Lord Wentworth (1613-65), of Toddington, Beds.

Will
admon. 24 May 1665.PROB6/40, f. 44.
Estates
heir to estates in Beds., Suff. and Mdx. worth at least £1,200 p.a. in 1640;J. Thirsk, ‘The sale of delinquents’ estates during the Interregnum’ (PhD diss. University of London, 1950), 96-7. predeceased his fa.
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