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Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley
b.1703
d.8 Jan 1766
  1. Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley1703 - 1766
  2. Mary Foley1704 -
  3. Strode Talbot Foley1705 - 1731
  4. Edward Foley1706 -
  5. Richard Foley1708 -
  6. Elizabeth Foley1709 -
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Name Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1703
Death[1] 8 Jan 1766
Reference Number? Q7789694?


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Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley FRS (1703 – 8 January 1766), was the eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, and inherited the vast Great Witley estate on his father's death in 1733, including ironworks at Wilden and Shelsley Walsh.


His father had dreamed of rebuilding the parish church, close to the family mansion of Witley Court, but died before doing so. This was undertaken by his widow Mary and son, and completed in 1735. The building was designed by James Gibbs. It was transformed in 1747, when Lord Foley bought decorative features of the chapel at Cannons, Lord Chandos' palace at Edgware. He then employed mould-makers to reproduce its plasterwork, making the church one of the finest baroque churches in Britain.

Unlike his father and three younger brothers, Lord Foley did not sit in the House of Commons. He never married. On his death, his estates devolved on his distant cousin Thomas Foley of Stoke Edith, for whom the title Lord Foley was revived in 1776. The new Lord Foley referred in this will to his predecessor as his "great benefactor".

In 1740 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In about 1740, he bought the Manor of Great Malvern in Malvern from Lord Mountfort. His successors continued to be its Lord of the Manor through the 19th century.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.