Sir Thomas Burgh
Baron Borough of Gainsborough
Baron Strabolgi
Baron Cobham of Sterborough
Quartered arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, KG
Bornc.1558
Died14 October 1597
Newry, County Down, Ireland
Spouse(s)Frances Vaughan
IssueRobert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh
Elizabeth Burgh
Anne Burgh
Frances Burgh
Katherine Burgh
FatherWilliam Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh
MotherLady Katherine Clinton

Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG[1] (English: /bʊræ/; BURRA; pronounced: Borough; c. 1558–14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII.[1] He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572. (aged 14?)[2]

Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593.

In February 1593, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. Burgh was met by Lord Seton and banqueted at Seton Palace.[3] James VI of Scotland was in the north and Burgh had to wait in Edinburgh until 14 March when he saw the king and discussed the risks of a Spanish invasion. On 18 March he had an audience with Anne of Denmark and received "ill grace both of words and looks".[4] Burgh and the resident diplomat Robert Bowes borrowed £300 sterling from three Edinburgh merchants, Robert Jousie, Thomas Foulis, and John Porterfield in order to reward potential supporters of English policy.[5]

On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.[2]

Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering (daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Pickering by his wife Jane Lewknor, and widow of Sir Francis Weston and Sir Henry Knyvett), by whom he had a son and four daughters:[6]

Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.[2]

In November 1613 his widow Frances, Lady Burgh, was given an allowance of £500 and went to join the household of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia at Heidelberg.[10]

On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).[11]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
  2. ^ a b c George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, 1889, pp. 76–77 (Google eBook)
  3. ^ Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 65.
  4. ^ Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 71.
  5. ^ Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 75–6.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Cokayne 1912, p. 424.
  7. ^ Nicholls 2004.
  8. ^ "KNYVET, Thomas II (d.1605), of Ashwellthorpe, Norf. and Stradbroke, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  9. ^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 155
  10. ^ Norman McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 489.
  11. ^ [1] Baron Burgh at Cracroft's Peerage.
  12. ^ a b c Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 355.
  13. ^ a b A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., p. 199.
  14. ^ a b The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603.

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Political offices Preceded byWilliam Russell Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597 Succeeded byEarl of Essex Unknown Ambassador to Scotland 1594 Unknown Unknown Governor of Brill, Flanders 1587–1597 Unknown Peerage of England Preceded byWilliam Burgh Baron Burgh 1584–1597 Succeeded byRobert Burgh Preceded byWilliam Burgh Baron Strabolgi 1584–1597 Succeeded byRobert Burgh Preceded byWilliam Burgh Baron Cobham of Sterborough 1584–1597 Succeeded byRobert Burgh
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