Person:Thomas Gorges (1)

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Thomas Gorges
d.30 Mar 1610
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Name Thomas Gorges
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1536 Wraxall, Somerset, England
Marriage Abt 1580 to Elin Ulfsdotter Snakenborg
Death[2] 30 Mar 1610
Burial[1] 30 Mar 1610 Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Reference Number? Q7790113?


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Sir Thomas Gorges (1536 – 30 March 1610) of Longford Castle in Wiltshire, was a courtier and Groom of the Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I. Via his great-grandmother Lady Anne Howard, a daughter of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, he was a second cousin of both Queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth wives of King Henry VIII. In 1586 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Downton in Wiltshire.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Thomas Gorges, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. GORGES, Thomas (1536-1610), of Longford, Wilts., in The History of Parliament.
  3.   Master, George S. Collections for a parochial history of Wraxall. (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1900)
    pp. 19-20.