Thomas Chester (died 1583)

Thomas Chester (c. 1524 – 1583) was the member of Parliament for the constituency of Bristol for the parliament of 1563 and Gloucestershire for the parliament of 1572.[1]

The son of a wealthy [Bristol] merchant William Chester (d. 1558), he served as sheriff of Bristol in 1559 before being elected to parliament for the city in 1567, when [John Walshe] became a judge. He became a major landowner through the purchase of the manor and hundred of Barton Regis.[2] He subsequently bought the manor of [Almondsbury], where he established his family.[3] When 1573 Giles Brydges succeeded to the family peerage, Chester was chosen to replace him as MP for Gloucestershire.[1] He died in Bristol in 1583.[4]

References
  1. CHESTER, Thomas (by 1524-83), of Bristol and Almondsbury, Glos. History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. Waters, Robert Edmund Chester (1881). Genealogical memoirs of the families of Chester of Bristol, Barton Regis, London, and Almondsbury. p. 30.
  3. Maclean, John (1885). The visitation of the county of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623. p. 39.
  4. Genealogical memoirs of the families of Chester of Bristol, Barton Regis, London, and Almondsbury. p. 32.


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