Sir Thomas Walcot SL (6 August 1629 – 6 September 1685) was an English judge and politician.

Family

Thomas Walcot, born 6 August 1629, was the second son of Humphrey Walcot (1586-1650) and his wife Anne Docwra (d.1675), whose mother, Jane (née Peryam) Docwra, was the daughter of Sir William Peryam.. Walcot had an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, William.

Career

Walcot entered

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

on 16 May 1646, became a member of the

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on 12 November 1647, and was

called to the Bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

there on 25 November 1653. On 15 February 1662 he became Attorney-General of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in April 1676 a Justice of the North Wales circuit. On 3 September 1679 he was elected Member of Parliament for

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, becoming a Serjeant-at-Law in May 1680 and a

Justice of the King's Bench Justice of the King's Bench, or Justice of the Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch, was a puisne judicial position within the Court of King's Bench, under the Chief Justice. The King's Bench was a court of common law which modern ...

on 22 October 1683, a position he held until his death on 6 September 1685.

Marriage and issue

On 10 December 1663, Walcot married Mary Littleton (d. 1695), the daughter of Sir Adam Littleton of

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. Their only child, Thomas Walcot, died in infancy.

Footnotes

References

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External links

Walcot, Thomas (1629-85), History of Parliament Walcot, John (1624-1702), History of Parliament
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walcot, Thomas 1629 births 1685 deaths Justices of the King's Bench