Thomas Horton (Gloucester)

Thomas Horton (1676-1727) was the owner of Wotton House, Gloucester|Wotton House, in Horton Road, Gloucester, which was built for him around 1707.[1][2] He was declared a lunatic.[3]

Wotton House

Horton was the son of John Horton of Elkstone, Gloucestershire and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Thomas Child of Northwick, Worcestershire.[4] He acquired Wotton by his marriage to Mary, the daughter of John Blanch.[5] He also inherited the manor of Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire in 1693.[4] By 1722 he was mentally unfit to manage his estate and a petition was presented to the House of Lords by his wife and two daughters for support.[4] He died in 1727 and was commemorated by a memorial stone at Elkstone.[6]

Horton was succeeded by his son Thomas (died 1755), later of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. He married Jane, daughter of Archdeacon Lewis.[4] She died in 1735 and was buried at Elkstone.[7] In 1746 he was subject to a "commission and inquisition of lunacy, into his state of mind and his property", records relating to which are held by the British National Archives.[8] Horton junior's will, which was dated 1735, left his estate to his sisters Eleanor, the wife of Richard Roberts and Elizabeth, the wife of William Blanch.[4] The will was not confirmed until 1763 due to legal disputes over the estate.[9]

References
  1. Verey, David & Alan Brooks. (2002). The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean (3rd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 502. ISBN 9780300097337.
  2. Historic England. "Wotton House (1271681)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  3. Gloucester: Outlying hamlets. British History Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  4. Wilkinson, John (1859). "History of Broughton Gifford". The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine. 5: 316, 326–7.
  5. VCH Gloucestershire Volume 4 Gloucester: Outlying hamlets. 1988. pp. 398–9.
  6. Frith, Brian, ed. (1990). Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections of Ralph Bigland Part 2. p. 580.
  7. The visitation of the county of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623. 1885. p. 85.
  8. Thomas Horton, esq, formerly of Wotton, Gloucestershire, now of Abergavenny,... National Archives. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  9. Gloucester: Charities for the poor. British History Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
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