COVENTRY, Thomas (c.1606-1661), of Croome d’Abitot, Worcs.; later of Canbury, Surr.; Dorchester House, Covent Garden and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1606, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Coventry* of Croome d’Abitot and 1st w. Sarah, da. of John Seabright of Blakeshall, Worcs. T. Nash, Colls. for Hist. of Worcs. i. 79, 262. educ. I. Temple 1623. CITR, ii. 137. m. 2 Apr. 1627, GL, ms 4107/1, unfol. Mary (d. 18 Oct. 1634) da. of Sir William Craven, Merchant Taylor and alderman of London, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2 da. d.v.p. suc. fa. 1640 as 2nd Bar. Coventry of Aylesborough. d. 27 Oct. 1661. CP; Oxford DNB sub Craven, Sir William; Nash, i. 161-2; Gordon, 41.

Offices Held

Member, Plymouth Venturers 1625. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 272.

J.p. Glos. 1628 – at least38, custos rot., Worcs. 1628 – at least43, 1660–d., C231/4, f. 251; Cal. Q. Sess. Pprs. ed. J.W. Willis Bund (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1900), i. p. ccxxviii; C231/7, p. 10. Glos. 1638–?; C231/5, f. 277. commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1631 – at least42, Wales and Marches 1634–40; C181/4, ff. 71, 162; 181/5, ff. 184v, 218v. member, Council in the Marches 1633; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 4, p. 7. commr. Avon navigation 1636, Ibid. ix. pt. 2, p. 6. array, Worcs. 1642, Worcester, 1642, raise volunteers (roy.), Worcs. 1642.Northants RO, FH133; R.H. Silcock, ‘County Govt. in Worcs.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1974), p. 327.

Parlimentarian

COVENTRY, Thomas (c.1606-1661), of Croome d’Abitot, Worcs.; later of Canbury, Surr.; Dorchester House, Covent Garden and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.

Main residences: Croome d'Abitot, Worcs.; Canbury, Surr. and Dorchester House, Covent Garden and Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mdx.

Author

G.R.

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

COVENTRY, Thomas (c.1606-1661)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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