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Family and Education
b. 4 May 1612, 1st s. of Sir John Hanmer, 1st bt.†, of Hanmer and Dorothy (d. 12 Nov. 1656), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Trevor† of Trefalyn, Denb.Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 63, 89; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir John Hanmer’. educ. King’s, Camb. Easter 1627;Al. Cant. travelled abroad 1638-by 1641.CSP Dom. 1638-9, p. 39. m. (1) 22 Dec. 1631, Elizabeth (d. 13 July 1645), da. of Sir Thomas Baker of Whittingham Hall, Fressingfield, Suff., h. to her bro. Thomas, maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1s. 1da.;C115/106/8387; NLW, Bettisfield Ms 1682, 1683; Copinger, Manors of Suff. iv. 36; J. Robinson, ‘New light on Sir Thomas Hanmer’, Garden Hist. xvi., 5. (2) 22 Nov. 1646, Susan (bur. 7 Mar. 1702), da. of Sir William Hervey† of Ickworth, Suff., 2s.Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 75, 113. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 28/9 June 1624;Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 58; HP Commons 1604-1629, ‘Sir John Hanmer’. d. 6 Oct. 1678.Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 111-12.
Offices Held

Court: page of honour, c.1625–?;Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 63. sewer, extraordinary, July 1638–?;LC5/134, p. 266. cupbearer by Sept. 1642–?CCC 943.

Local: j.p. Flint 5 May 1632 – aft.Jan. 1644, 16 Aug. 1660–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 108, 111, 114. Commr. exacted fees, Chester, Cheshire and Flint 3 Jan. 1635;C181/4, f. 192v. charitable uses, Flint 12 July 1637, 19 Apr. 1642;C192/1, unfol. subsidy, 1641, 1663; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660, 1666; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1666, 1672, 1677;SR; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). array (roy.), 3 Aug. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Custos rot. 5 Aug. 1642 – aft.Jan. 1644, 16 Aug. 1660–d.Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 110, 114. Commr. impressment (roy.), 6 Jan. 1644; accts. (roy.) 11 July 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 124, 223. Dep. lt. by c.Sept. 1661–d.SP29/42/63, f. 123. Commr. loyal and indigent officers, 1662.SR.

Military: capt. of dragoons (roy.), 7 Sept.-?Nov. 1642.NLW, Bettisfield Ms 111; Hanmer, Par. and Fam. of Hanmer, 65; CCC 943. Gov. (roy.) Chirk Castle c.Jan.-?Mar. 1643.N. Tucker, ‘Richard Griffith at the siege of Chester’, NLWJ xiii. 57; ‘The Ottley pprs. rel. to the civil war’ ed. W. Phillips (Trans. Salop Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. ser. 2, vii), 275.

Parlimentarian
HANMER, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. (1612-78), of Bettisfield, Flints.
: 2nd bt. (1612-1678), of Bettisfield Park, Flint., Hanmer 1612 – 78.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, C. Johnson, 1631;National Museum Wales, Cardiff. oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, c.1638;Weston Park, Staffs. miniature, S. Cooper.D. Foskett, Samuel Cooper (1974), 123.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HANMER, Sir Thomas, 2nd bt. (1612-1678), of Bettisfield Park, Hanmer, Flint.

Will
13 May 1677.NLW, Chester Probate Recs. 1521-1858, will of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1678.
Estates
in 1643, inc. manor of Hanmer and lands in Bettisfield, Bronington, Halghton, Halkyn, Hanmer, Hendrefigillt, Holywell, Overton, Penley, Tybroughton, Willington and Worthenbury, Flint and Salop.NLW, Bettisfield Ms 282, 563, 1037, 1756. In 1645, he claimed that estate worth £322 p.a. in possession and £340 p.a. in reversion; that it was charged with debts amounting to more than £2,000 and rents of £29 p.a.; and that house and goods had been plundered or destroyed during the war to the tune of £1,000.SP23/227, pp. 552, 554, 561. In 1655, he declared to commrs. for levying decimation tax that estate in and around Hanmer worth a mere £496 and encumbered with charges of £75 p.a. and interest payments of £1,500 upon debts contracted before the war.TSP iv. 319. In 1660 estate of Hanmer’s heir Sir John Hanmer† valued (presumably in expectancy) at about £3,000 p.a.P. Jenkins, ‘Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak’, NLWJ xxiv. 345. At his d. in 1678, estate inc. lands and tenements in Bangor-on-Dee, Erbistock, Halghton, Halkyn, Hendrefigillt, Overton, Penley, Tybroughton, Willington and Worthenbury; advowson of vicarage of Hanmer, Flint.NLW, Chester Probate Recs. 1521-1858, will of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1678.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
presented Thomas Porter to vicarage of Hanmer, 1625.Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry ed. M.H. Lee, 34, 201.
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