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Thynne Family
Thynne is a surname. Notable people and characters with the surname include: *Lord Alexander Thynne (1873–1918), British soldier and Conservative politician *Andrew Joseph Thynne (1847–1927), Australian politician * Lord Edward Thynne (1807–1884), British soldier and Conservative politician * Francis Thynne (1544–1608), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London * George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret (1770–1838), British Tory politician * Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath (1797–1837), British naval commander and politician * Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905–1992), British politician, aristocrat and landowner * Lord Henry Thynne (1832–1904), British Conservative politician * Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, character from the British 1950s comedy radio programme ''The Goon Show'' *James Thynne (1605–1670), English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1670 *Jane Thynne (born 1961), British novelist, journalist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Alexander Thynne
Lord Alexander George Boteville Thynne (17 February 1873 – 14 September 1918) was a British Army officer and Conservative politician. Biography Thynne, born in London, was the third and youngest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, and his wife Frances Isabella Catherine (née Vesey). He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in April 1897. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Thynne volunteered for active service and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 7 February 1900, leaving Liverpool on the SS ''Cymric'' in March 1900 to serve in South Africa with the 1st (Wiltshire) company of the 1st Battalion. During the war, he was promoted a lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry on 13 June 1900, while still in South Africa. He resigned his active commission with the Imperial Yeomanry on 28 July 1902, and in January 1903 was back in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. He was later a temporary lieutenant- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thynne (died 1604)
Sir John Thynne (21 September 1555 – 21 November 1604) of Longleat House, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Sir John Thynne of Longleat and Christian, the daughter of Sir Richard Gresham, a London mercer. He was educated at Oxford, graduating BA in 1573. He succeeded his father in 1580, inheriting Longleat House, which his father had built, and was knighted in 1603. He married Joan, the daughter of Sir Rowland Heyward, Lord Mayor of London, of Cripplegate, London, with whom he had two sons. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Shropshire and was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1593–94. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Heytesbury in 1584, 1586, 1593, 1597 and 1601, and for Wiltshire in 1589 and 1604. His wife's father gave her Caus Castle in Shropshire, but its ownership was disputed. After he and Joan took the castle by force in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess Of Bath
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (25 January 1765 – 27 March 1837), styled Viscount Weymouth from 1789 until 1796, was a British peer. Life Early life Thynne was the eldest son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and Elizabeth Thynne, Marchioness of Bath, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentinck. He succeeded as 2nd Marquess in 1796 on the death of his father. He was educated at Winchester College and admitted as a nobleman to St John's College, Cambridge in 1785, graduating Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin), M.A. in 1787. Political career Between 1786 and 1790, he was MP (Tory) for Weobley (UK Parliament constituency), Weobley. He later sat for Bath (UK Parliament constituency), Bath from 1790 to 1796. He was Lord Lieutenant of Somerset between 1819 and 1837 and was invested as a Order of the Garter, Knight of the Garter on 16 July 1823. Later life and death He was a benefactor in the nearby town of Frome, giving up land and buildings so that a new wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess Of Bath
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (13 September 173419 November 1796), of Longleat in Wiltshire, was a British politician who held office under King George III. He served as Southern Secretary, Northern Secretary and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Between 1751 and 1789, he was known as the 3rd Viscount Weymouth. He is possibly best known for his role in the Falklands Crisis of 1770. Early life He was born on 13 September 1734, the eldest son and heir of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710–1751) by his wife Louisa Carteret (c. 1712–1736), a daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 2nd Baron Carteret (1690–1763). On her father's side, she was a great-granddaughter of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701), and her father's first-cousin was William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath (1692–1711), on whose death the Earldom of Bath became extinct. Family origins The Thynnes are descended from Sir John Thynne (c. 1515–1580), the builder of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth
Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (21 May 1710 – 1751) of Longleat House in Wiltshire was an English peer, descended from Sir John Thynne (c.1515-1580) builder of Longleat. Origins He was born on 21 May 1710, the son of Thomas Thynne (d.1710) by his wife Lady Mary Villiers.''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', (106th edition, 1999), vol. 1, p. 212 His father died a month before Thomas was born. Inheritance On 28 July 1714, aged four, on the death of his great uncle Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, he inherited Longleat House and its great estates and succeeded to the baronetcy of Thynne, of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, and (by special remainder) to the titles of Baron Thynne of Warminster, Wiltshire, and Viscount Weymouth, of Dorset. He also inherited land at Buckland, Gloucestershire on the death of his uncle James Thynne in 1709. Career In 1733 he was appointed High Steward of Tamworth and was also Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England from 1735 to 1736. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne (died 1682)
Thomas Thynne (1647/8–12 February 1682) was an English landowner of the family that is now headed by the Marquess of Bath and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1682. He went by the nickname "Tom of Ten Thousand" due to his great wealth. He was a friend of the Duke of Monmouth, a relationship referred to in John Dryden's satirical work ''Absalom and Achitophel'' where Thynne is described as "Issachar, his wealthy western friend". Thynne was the son of Sir Thomas Thynne, and his wife Stuarta Balquanquill, daughter of Dr. Walter Balquanquill.Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th edition (Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999), vol. 1, p. 212 His father was a younger son of Sir Thomas Thynne of Longleat, Wiltshire. In 1670 Thynne succeeded to the family estates at Longleat on the death of his uncle Sir James Thynne without issue. He also succeeded his uncle as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire, and sat until his death in 1682. On 15 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth
Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth (1640 – 28 July 1714) was an English politician who served as president of the Board of Trade from 1702 to 1705. Biography He was born the son of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne of Caus Castle, Shropshire, and Kempsford, Gloucestershire, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough. His sister was Katherine Lowther who was an electoral patron. He succeeded his father as 2nd baronet (1681) and married Frances, daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea. He was descended from the first Sir John Thynne of Longleat House. He was educated at Kingston Grammar School and entered Christ Church, Oxford on 21 April 1657. He was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 23 November 1664. He held the office of Envoy to Sweden between November 1666 and April 1669. He was returned as Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Oxford University between 1674 and 1679 and for Tamworth between 1679 and 1681. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne (died 1669)
Sir Thomas Thynne (c.1610 – 1669) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Life Thynne was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Thynne and his first wife Maria Tuchet, daughter of Lord Audley. His parents' marriage was disputed and there was a long legal dispute. Thynne matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 28 June 1620, aged 10. He entered Middle Temple in 1629 and was called to the bar in 1637. He was knighted on 19 August 1642 but appears to have taken no part in the English Civil War; in 1646 he was assessed at £4,000 by the committee for the advance of money, but no proceedings were taken. His house at Richmond, Surrey was searched for royalist suspects in 1659 and his steward and butler were ordered to be arrested. In 1660, Thynne was elected Member of Parliament for Hindon in a double return and was admitted to the Convention Parliament on the merits of his election. He was commissioner for assessment for Wiltshire fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thynne (died 1639)
Sir Thomas Thynne (''c.''1578–1639), of Longleat, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1629. His romance with the daughter of his family's enemies may have inspired Shakespeare to pen Romeo and Juliet. Life Thynne was the son and heir of Sir John Thynne of Longleat, a knight of the shire,'Parliamentary history : 1529–1629', in '' A History of the County of Wiltshire'', vol. 5 (1957)pp. 111–132 accessed 7 July 2011 and Joan Hayward, daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward, a Lord Mayor of London. Thynne first made his mark in May 1594, at the age of sixteen, when he clandestinely married Maria (or Mary) Touchet, also sixteen, a gentlewoman at the court of Queen Elizabeth and a daughter of Lord Audley. The two were married on the day they first met and for some time kept their marriage secret because their fathers were bitterly opposed to each other, continuing a feud which had begun in the prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Louisa Thynne
Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford (née Thynne; 25 March 1760 – 28 December 1832) was an English naturalist and botanical illustrator who made studies and paintings of the plants, algae, and fungi from the Warwickshire area. Life She was born the eldest daughter of the politician Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Bentinck.Cokayne George Edward. et al., eds. (2000) ''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: Alan Sutton Publishing. Vol. I, p. 366. In 1781 she married Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford. She had thirteen children, including Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford. She was widowed in 1812. In 1816, she leased Stanmore Park House, Stanmore, Middlesex: the site is now a housing estate, Lady Aylesford Avenue. She died at the age of 72 at the family home of Packington Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thynne, 4th Marquess Of Bath
John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1 March 1831 – 20 April 1896), styled Viscount Weymouth between March and June 1837, was a British peer and landowner, and a diplomat for almost sixty years. Background and education Born in St James's, he was the son of Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath and his wife Harriet, second daughter of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton. He succeeded his father as Marquess in June 1837, aged six. Lord Bath was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a devout Anglo-Catholic and a determined opponent of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 which sought to suppress Ritualism in the Church of England. He owned 55,000 acres, largely in County Monaghan, Wiltshire, Somerset and Shropshire. Career He held the office of Envoy Extraordinary for the coronation of King Pedro V of Portugal on 27 May 1858, and Envoy Extraordinary for the coronation of the Emperor Franz Joseph I as King of Hungary on 25 July 1867. From 1874 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret
John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret PC (28 December 1772 – 10 March 1849), known as Lord John Thynne between 1789 and 1838, was a British peer and politician. Background and education Carteret was the third son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and Lady Elizabeth Bentinck, daughter of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Political career Carteret was returned to Parliament for Weobly in May 1796, a seat he held until December the same year, and then represented Bath between 1796 and 1832. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1804 to 1812 and was sworn into the Privy Council in 1804. In 1838 he succeeded his childless elder brother George in the barony and took his seat in the House of Lords. Marriage In 1801 Lord Carteret married Mary Anne Master (died February 1863), daughter of Thomas Master. They had no children. Death and succession He died at his house Hawnes Park in March 1849, aged 76. On his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
