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Thomas Thynne of Longleat, 16481682 (aged 34 years)

Thomas Thynne of Longleat - Painted by Alexander Browne.
Name
Thomas /Thynne/ of Longleat
Surname
Thynne
Given names
Thomas
Name suffix
of Longleat
Family with Lady Elizabeth Percy Duchess of Somerset
himself
wife
Lady Elizabeth Percy
16671722
Birth: 26 January 1667 22 Petworth, Sussex, England
Death: 24 November 1722Strand, London, England
Marriage Marriage1681
Charles Seymour Baron Trowbridge, 6th Duke of Somerset, K.G., P.C.. + Lady Elizabeth Percy Duchess of Somerset
wife’s husband
wife
Lady Elizabeth Percy
16671722
Birth: 26 January 1667 22 Petworth, Sussex, England
Death: 24 November 1722Strand, London, England
Marriage Marriage1682
stepdaughter
stepson
Cockermouth Castle, Cumbria (formerly Cumberland), England.
16841750
Birth: 11 November 1684 22 17 England
Death: 7 February 1750England
-10 months
stepson
stepdaughter
stepdaughter
Henry Cavendish (later Percy), Earl of Ogle, 2nd Duke of Newcastle of the March. + Lady Elizabeth Percy Duchess of Somerset
wife’s husband
wife
Lady Elizabeth Percy
16671722
Birth: 26 January 1667 22 Petworth, Sussex, England
Death: 24 November 1722Strand, London, England
Marriage Marriage1679
Birth
Marriage
Death
1682 (aged 34 years)
Unique identifier
AF55974AC55BF8489F4AC5A611C19EA3AC8C
Last change
2 February 201218:24:58
Author of last change: Danny
Note

'Tom of Ten Thousand' succeeded to Longleat on the death of his uncle, Sir James Thynne, in 1670. He attached himself first to James, Duke of York , and then to the Duke of Monmouth. He was removed from command of the Wiltshire Militia for hostility at Court.

"A man of the worst character", his wife, Lady Elizabeth Percy, hated him. She fled to Holland and Thomas’s love rival, Count Konigsmark (the Swedish adventurer). Thomas was murdered but the Count was acquitted of being an accessory at the trial.

His epitaph reads:

Here lies long Tom, of Longleat Hall,
Who would not have miscarried;
Had he married the woman he lay withal,
Or lain with the woman he married.

Longleat, Wiltshire, includes the first Safari Park outside Africa (opened in 1966).