Commons 1754-1790

b. 16 Oct. 1765, 1st (illegit.) s. of John Calcraft by Mrs. Elizabeth Bride, an actress. educ. Harrow 1774; Eton 1778-9. m. to Newcastle, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Pym Hales, 4th Bt., 2s. 3da. suc. fa. 23 Aug. 1772.

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.

b. 30 June 1732, s. of John Call of Prestacott, Cornw. by Jane, da. of John Mill. educ. ‘under Mr. Daddo, at Tiverton’ and ‘Mr. Keate, of Somerton’.GEC Baronetage. m. 28 Mar. 1772, Philadelphia, da. and coh. of William Batty of Kingston-upon-Thames Sour., 2s. 4da. suc. fa. 1766; cr. Bt. 28 July 1791.