CALCRAFT, Thomas (1738-83), of Ancaster, Lincs.

bap. 16 Mar. 1738, 6th s. of John Calcraft, attorney, town clerk of Grantham, and bro. of John Calcraft (d. 1772). educ. Leicester; academy in Soho Square.Mrs. G. A. Bellamy attacking John Calcraft writes that he quarrelled with her ‘for insisting that he [Thomas] should be placed, for some time, at the academy in Soho-square’ (Apology, iii. 75); and in her financial reckoning with him: ‘I expended upon your brother, Captain Calcraft, at the Academy, and for other necessaries, £350’ (ibid. v. 193). For the mere fact of Thomas having been at the Academy her evidence seems acceptable.. m. 1764, Cecil Anne, da. of John Walker of Lyneham, Wilts., niece of the Colebrookes, 1s. 3da. suc. under John Calcraft’s will to his Lincolnshire estates 1772.