Oxfordshire Yarnton - extinct

Sir Thomas Spencer 1685 died aged 46, six months after his only surviving son..

Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet 1639 - 1685 was the son of Sir William Spencer, 2nd Baronet d1647 and Constance daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote by Alice Spencer : grandson of Thomas Spencer www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2425148666/ and great grandson of William Spencer 1609 & Margaret Bowyer

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In 1660 Spencer was MP for Woodstock in the Convention Parliament and again in 1661-1679 for the Cavalier Parliament

Thomas m 1655 "early in life having 2 children before he was 20" Jane www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2424259213/ daughter of Sir John Garrard, 2nd Baronet d1686 of Lamer, Herts by Jane Lambard

Thomas and Jane lived in St Martin le Field London, The civil wars passed during his absence, and the Manor House at Yamton was given up for use as a hospital for the sick and wouded

Children

1. Jane 1657-89 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2424268893/ m Robert Spencer of Great Brington son of William Spencer1592 of Althorp by Penelope Wriothesley of Tichfield www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7163628891/

2. William 1656-dsp1683 unmarried www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2424259217/

3. Margaret b 1660 died young

4. Constance www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2425082650/ m George Marwood esq of Stokesley

5. Elizabeth Spencer b 1665 dsp 1705 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2425081656/ m2 Francis Bassett of Tehidy & Roscrowe, Illogan Cornwall,

6. Thomas bc1657 dsp]

7. Thomas b1665-93 dsp

8. Katherine b 1670 -1714 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2425081404/ m1 John Dormer m2 George Mordaunt of Turvey son of John Lord Mordaunt, Viscount of Avilon and Baron of Rigate

 

Having no surviving son, the baronetcy passed to a cousin Thomas Spencer of Eardington and has since become extinct.

The heirs to the estate were his 4 daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Constance and Katherine. Jane died in 1686,and her share of the property appears to have been separated from her sisters' and became the property of the Swetes, the remaining three-fourths were bought by Sir Robert Dashwood in 1695 for £31,000.

 

Monument by John Nost

'Dedicated to the immortal memory of Sir Thomas Spencer alias Spenser *. . . here all the children are enumerated ... * Sir Thomas was of a very ancient and noble extraction descended from Robert Despencer, a Baron in ye time of Will ye Gonq'. and nearly allied to the right Honourable family of the Spencers, Barons of Wormleighton and Earls of

Sunderland. He was a most accomplished gentleman, truely great, generous,

hospitable and charitable. By his last will he hath charged an enclosed Ground in this Parish called Windmill Field with the payment of ten pounds a year for ever to the Uses following, (viz.) Three pounds to be paid yearly to successive Vicars of this Towne upon this condition that they shall every year in this chapel on his birthday, which was New Years Day, on the day of his death and on the day of the death of Dame Jane his wife,

read the Morning Service as directed in the Liturgy of the Church of England, and seaven Pounds a year to be applied to the repair beautifying this Chapel and the Monuments of his family or otherwise toward the relief and support of the Poor of this Parish'

 

Done