Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

Sir Thomas Burgh
Baron Borough of Gainsborough Baron Strabolgi Baron Cobham of Sterborough
Spouse(s)	Frances Vaughan
Issue
Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh Frances Burgh Katherine Burgh Elizabeth Burgh Anne Burgh
Father	William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh
Mother	Lady Katherine Clinton
Born	c.1558
Died	14 October 1597 Newry, County Down, Ireland

Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG^[1] (c. 1558-14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII.^[1] He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1573.^[2]

Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593. In 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and held the office until his death in 1597.^[2]

Burgh married Frances Vaughan, daughter of John Vaughan of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, and by her had several children:

Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c. 1594 - c. 1602), died young, buried at Winchester Cathedral.^[2]
Elizabeth Burgh, married the Rev. George Brooke, son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, and had issue. She married secondly Francis Reade, 2nd son of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Middlesex. There were no children of her second marriage.^[1]
Katherine Burgh (died April 1646), married Thomas Knyvett, son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue.^[3]
Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641), married Sir Drew Drury.
Frances Burgh (died before 24 Nov 1618), married Francis Coppinger.^[1]

Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.^[2]

On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).^[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

16. Sir Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh

8. Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh

17. Margaret Ros

4. Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh

18. Thomas Cobham, 5th Baron Cobham

9. Anne Cobham

19. Lady Anne Stafford

2. William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh

20. Sir Robert Tyrwhit^[5]

10. Sir William Tyrwhit^[1]

21. Elizabeth Waterton^[5]

5. Agnes Tyrwhit

22. Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough^[5]

11. Anne Constable^[1]

23. Agnes Wentworth

1. Sir Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh

24. John Clinton, 7th Baron Clinton

12. Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton

25. Elizabeth Morgan

6. Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln

26. Sir Edward Poynings

13. Mary Poynings

3. Lady Katherine Clinton

28. Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet^[6]

14. Sir John Blount

29. Anne Croft^[6]

7. Elizabeth Blount

30. Sir Hugh Pershall^[7]

15. Catherine Pershall

31. Isabel Stanley^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, 1889, pp. 76-77 (Google eBook)
^ G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 155
^ Croft's Peerage; Baron Burgh at cracroftspeerage.co.uk
^ ^a ^b ^c Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 355.
^ ^a ^b A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, by John Burke, Esq., p. 199.
^ ^a ^b The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 603.

Political offices
Preceded by William Russell	Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597	Succeeded by Earl of Essex
Preceded by Unknown	Ambassador to Scotland 1594	Succeeded by Unknown
Preceded by Unknown	Governor of Brill, Flanders 1587–1597	Succeeded by Unknown
Peerage of England
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Burgh 1584-1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Strabolgi 1584-1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh
Preceded by William Burgh	Baron Cobham of Sterborough 1584-1597	Succeeded by Robert Burgh

Persondata
Name	Burgh, Thomas, 3rd Baron
Alternative names	7th Baron Strabolgi
Short description
Date of birth	c. 1558
Place of birth
Date of death	14 October 1597
Place of death	Newry, County Down, Ireland