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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578 – 14 January 1640) was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century. Education and early legal career.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was an English lawyer, lord keeper of England from 1625 to 1640. Coventry was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the Inner Temple, where he fell under the influence of the jurist Sir Edward Coke. Despite Francis Bacon’s opposition, Coventry became.
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Coventry, Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron (1578–1640). Coventry was born at Croome d'Abitot in Worcestershire, the son of a judge, and had a rapid rise to legal eminence. By 1616 he was recorder of London, in 1617–21 solicitor-general, and attorney-general 1621–5.
His descendant Sir Thomas Coventry was a noted early 17th-century lawyer and politician. He served as Solicitor General, as Attorney General and as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. In 1628 he was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Coventry, of Aylesborough in the County of Worcester.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry (ca. 1629 – 15 July 1699), became 5th Baron Coventry on the death of his nephew in 1687. He was created 1st Earl of Coventry in 1697. He was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1687 when he succeeded to the peerage.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry. (1578-1640), Lord Keeper. Sitter associated with 12 portraits. A distinguished lawyer and an active member of parliament, Coventry was instrumental in enforcing Charles I's royal proclamations.
Coventry, Thomas, (1578-1640), 1st Baron Coventry, Lord Keeper. This page summarises records created by this Person. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s)...
