Thomas Whitgrave
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| Born | Thomas Whitgrave 1618 |
| Died | 14 July 1702 (aged 83/84) Wolverhampton, England |
| Resting place | St Mary's Church, Bushbury |
| Occupations | Lawyer and Member of Parliament for Staffordshire under Oliver Cromwell |
| Children | 11 (8 sons and 3 daughters) |
Thomas Whitgrave (or Whitgreave) (1618 – 14 July 1702)[1] was the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire for the First, Second and Third Protectorate parliaments who was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1658.[2][3] He was also considered as a potential recipient Knight of the Royal Oak, a reward to those Englishmen who faithfully and actively supported Charles II during his exile in France. (The knighthoods conferred by the Lord Protector were not recognised after the Restoration.)[4]
Marriage and issue
Thomas Whitgrave was born in 1618 to Thomas Whitgreave and Alice Shaw and he had seven sisters.[1] He lived in Moseley Old Hall until no later than 1657.
He became a lawyer by 1645 and was a Member of Parliament for Staffordshire for the First, Second and Third Protectorate parliaments between 1654 and 1659.[1] He was also knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1658 and was given a pension in 1666, which was continued in his sons' name by 1677.[5]
Whitgrave, a Catholic, was prosecuted for recusancy in 1675 but he was exempted in 1678–9 following the Popish Plot.[1] During this time he also became a Gentleman Usher for Catherine of Braganza.
Thomas Whitegrave died on 4 July 1702 in Wolverhampton and was buried at St. Mary's Church in Bushbury, Wolverhampton.[1]
Whitgreave married twice. He married a widow named Constance in 1669 and bore two sons. He then remarried on 27 February 1692 to Isobel Turville of Aston Flamville, who bore six sons and three daughters.[1]
