Thomas Tasburgh

Thomas Tasburgh (c. 1553 – c. 1602), of Hawridge, and then Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.[1]

He was a younger, apparently posthumously-born son of John Tasburgh (III) (c. 1495-1552) of Flixton (near Bungay), Suffolk, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Davy of Norwich,[2] and was educated at Gray's Inn in London.

Tasburgh served as a Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire from 1579 and was pricked High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for 1581–82. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire in 1588, Aylesbury in 1584, 1586 and 1597, and Chipping Wycombe in 1593. He was Teller of the Exchequer from 1598 to 1602.

The Hawridge estate was left to his nephew, John Tasburgh.

Marriages

Tasburgh first married Dorothy (née Kitson) (1531–1577), widow of Sir Thomas Pakington (died 2 June 1571) of Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire, and daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, by his second wife, Margaret Donnington.[3] She has a brass plate memorial inscription at Hawridge which reads: "Here lyeth buried the body of Dame Dorothie Pakyngton, A daughter of Sr Thomas Kytson late of London knight who was the wyfe first of Sr Thomas Pakyngton knyght, and last of Thomas Tasburgh Esquier, She lyved very vertuously and departed this lyfe, a mooste faythfull and godly Christian, the 2de of Maye, when she had lyved xlvj yeares and vij monethes, Anno dni. 1577."

He married secondly Jane West, daughter of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr, and widow successively of Thomas Wenman, esquire, and James Cressy.[4]

He had no issue by either marriage. After his death his widow, Jane, married, as her fourth husband, Ralph Sheldon, esquire, of Beoley, Worcestershire.[4]

Notes

1. A.M. Mimardière and P.W. Hasler, 'Tasburgh, Thomas (c.1554-1602), of Hawridge; later of Beaconsfield, Bucks.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer 1981), History of Parliament Online.
2. N. Evans, 'The Tasburghs of South Elmham: The Rise and Fall of a Suffolk Gentry Family', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, XXXIV Part 4 (1980), pp. 269-80 (Society's pdf). Thomas Tasburgh is discussed at pp. 273-74.
3. Carter 2004.
4. Richardson IV 2011, pp. 324-5.

References

• Carter, P.R.N. (2004). "Tasburgh , Dorothy (other married name Dorothy Pakington, Lady Pakington) (1531–1577)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. pp. 324–25. ISBN 1460992709.