Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset
Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset (1579[1]–1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1626.
Somerset was the third son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester.[2]
In 1601, Somerset was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire.[3] He became a member of Gray's Inn on 7 August 1604.[2] In 1604 he was re-elected MP for Monmouthshire and sat until 1611.[3] He was knighted as Knight of Bath on 5 January 1605. In December 1626 he was raised to Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Somerset of Cashel.[2]
Somerset died in 1651 and the title became extinct.[2]
Somerset married Eleanor de Barry daughter of David Viscount Buttevant.[2] She was the widow of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond who died in November 1614.
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| Parliament of England | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire 1601-1611 With: Henry Morgan 1601 Sir John Herbert 1604-1611 |
Succeeded by Walter Montagu William Jones |
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- English barristers
- Somerset family
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- 1579 births
- 1651 deaths
- People of the Stuart period
- English MPs 1601
- English MPs 1604–11
- 16th-century English nobility
- 16th-century English lawyers
