WESTERN, Thomas (c.1693-1733), of Preston, Suss.

Western was the grandson of an ironmaster, who died in 1707, said to be worth £200,000.Luttrell, vi. 130. Himself a London merchant, he acquired through his wife the estates of the Shirleys, buying her sister’s moiety in 1721 for £6,275.Horsfall, Suss. i. 169. Returned unopposed in 1715 as a Whig for Sudbury, he seconded the Address 17 Dec. 1718, but voted against the Government in all recorded divisions. He did not stand again, dying 7 Apr. 1733, aged about 40.C. F. Smith, ‘The Western family of Rivenhall’, Essex Rev. x. 8. His great-grandson was Charles Callis Western, M.P., created Lord Western.