Thomas Crewe
Sir Thomas Crewe(orCrew) (1565 – 31 January 1634), of Stene, betweenFarthinghoeandBrackleyinNorthamptonshire,was an EnglishMember of Parliamentand lawyer, and served asSpeaker of the House of Commonsfrom 1623 to 1625.
He was a son of John Crewe and Alicia, a daughter Humphrey Manwaring ofNantwich.
Crewe was a member ofGray's Inn,and aserjeant-at-law.He went toWoodstock Palacein September 1603, where the royal family had gone to avoid plague in London, and sent a letter of news and business toMary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury.The business concerned the marriage of her daughterMaryto theEarl of Pembroke.[1]
He entered Parliament in 1604 as Member forLichfield,and was later MP forNorthampton(1621–2),Aylesbury(1623–1625) andGatton(1625). In 1621 he drew attention to himself by defying theKing,declaring the liberties of Parliament to be "matters of inheritance". In 1623 he was knighted, and in the Parliament summoned that year (which first assembled in February 1624) he was elected Speaker; he served in that capacity in the two Parliaments known to history as theHappy Parliamentand theUseless Parliament.In 1633, he was appointed a member of the ecclesiastical commission. He died the following year.
Sir Thomas Crew married Temperance Bray, daughter of Reginald Bray and Hon. Anne Vaux, daughter ofThomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux.[2]Some of their children include:
- John,followed him into Parliament, and was raised to the peerage asBaron Crewin 1661 for his role in bringing about theRestoration.
- Patience, married toSir John Curzon, 1st Baronetand had issue.[3]
He lived at Stene, Northamptonshire, and died on 31 January 1633.
References
[edit]- Concise Dictionary of National Biography(1930)
- Burke's Extinct Peerage(London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831)[1]
- Mark Noble,Memoirs of several persons and families... allied to or descended from... the Protectorate-House of Cromwell(Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1784)[2]
- ^Edmund Lodge,Illustrations of British History,vol. 3 (London, 1791), p. 185.
- ^John Burke. The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales With Their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, volume 1, 1848.Google eBook
- ^John Burke. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 2, 1833.Google eBook
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