Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson

Thomas Anson (1767-1818), after T. Phillips, by 1886. Member of Parliament.

Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (14 February 1767 – 31 July 1818) was a British politician and peer from the Anson family.

Background and career

Thomas Anson was born 14 February 1767, the first son of George Anson (1731–1789) of Shugborough and Mary Vernon, the daughter of George Venables Vernon.[1] The family's surname was Adams until 1773, when his father inherited the Anson estates upon the death of his maternal uncles and his unmarried older brother, Thomas.[2]

He was the brother of Mary Anson (born 1759), who married Sir Francis Ford, 1st Baronet in 1785.[3] Thomas's brothers included army generals Sir George Anson and Sir William Anson.[2]

He was educated in Eton in 1779 and Oriel, University of Oxford in 1784.[1]

Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson, Thomas William Anson, Anne Margaret Anson, and George Anson, as Children, Shugborough Hall, National Trust

On his father's death in 1789, Thomas Anson succeeded him as member of parliament (MP) for Lichfield and held the post until 17 February 1806,[1] when he was succeeded by his brother, George. On leaving the Commons on 17 February 1806, Anson was created Viscount Anson,[1][4] of Shugborough and Orgrave, Co. Stafford and Baron Soberton, of Soberton, Co. Southampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[4]

Marriage and children

Viscount Anson's memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church in Colwich

On 15 September 1794, Anson married Lady Anne Coke, the daughter of the 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham.[1]

They had thirteen children:[2]

Their children included Henry William Primrose (1846–1923) who became chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue from 1899 to 1907.

Death

He died on 31 July 1818.[1] His papers and correspondence are held at the Staffordshire County Record Office of the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 E. A. Smith. "Anson, Thomas (1767-1818)". History of Parliament Online, Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 John Debrett (1840). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. p. 447-448.
  3. ↑ "Sir Francis Ford 2nd Bart.". Legacies of British-slave ownership. Universerity College of London. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 William Dyott (1907). Dyott's diary, 1781-1845: a selection from the journal of William Dyott, sometime general in the British army and aide-de-camp to His Majesty King George III. A. Constable. p. 296.
  5. ↑ "Anson, Thomas (1767-1818) 1st Viscount Anson (D 615 P)". National Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Gilbert
George Anson		 Member of Parliament for Lichfield
with Thomas Gilbert 1768–95,
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower 1795–99,
Sir John Wrottesley, from 1799
1789–1801 		Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Great Britain		 Member of Parliament for Lichfield
with Sir John Wrottesley
1801–1806 		Succeeded by
Sir John Wrottesley
Sir George Anson
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Anson
1806–1818 		Succeeded by
Thomas Anson
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