For the soldier hanged for treason, see Thomas Walcot (Lieut Colonel).

Sir Thomas Walcot SL (6 August 1629 – 6 September 1685) was an English judge and politician.

Contents

• 1 Family
• 2 Career
• 3 Marriage and issue
• 4 Footnotes
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Family

Thomas Walcot, born 6 August 1629, was the second son of Humphrey Walcot (1586-1650) and his wife Anne Docwra (d.1675), whose mother, Jane (née Peryam) Docwra, was the daughter of Sir William Peryam. Walcot had an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, William.

Career

Walcot entered Trinity College, Cambridge on 16 May 1646, became a member of the Middle Temple on 12 November 1647, and was called to the Bar there on 25 November 1653. On 15 February 1662 he became Attorney-General of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in April 1676 a Justice of the North Wales circuit. On 3 September 1679 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow, becoming a Serjeant-at-Law in May 1680 and a Justice of the King's Bench on 22 October 1683, a position he held until his death on 6 September 1685.

Marriage and issue

On 10 December 1663, Walcot married Mary Littleton (d. 1695), the daughter of Sir Adam Littleton of Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire. Their only child, Thomas Walcot, died in infancy.

Footnotes

References

• Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 3rd series. Vol.:V. Shrewsbury: Adnitt and Naunton. 1905. p.:324. Retrieved 28 January 2013.

External links

• Walcot, Thomas (1629-85), History of Parliament
• Walcot, John (1624-1702), History of Parliament