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Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673–1733)

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Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley FRS (8 November 1673 – 22 January 1733)

was an English landowner, ironmaster and Member of Parliament.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Foley (c. 1641–1701) and inherited the Great Witley estate on his father's death. ^[1] His younger brothers were Edward Foley (1676–1747) and Richard Foley (1681–1732). He entered Lincoln's Inn to study law in 1695.

He was Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1694 until his elevation to the peerage in 1712, as one of 12 peers created on the recommendation of the Lord Treasurer, Robert Harley Earl of Oxford, to give him a majority in the House of Lords.

Business

When the lease of ironworks at Wilden and Shelsley Walsh expired in 1708, he took them in hand and they were operated as an estate enterprise by him and successive owners of the estate until 1776.^[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1696. ^[3]

Family

Thomas Foley married Mary Strode with whom he fathered seven children, five of them predeceasing their parents. His only surviving son was Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley, after whose death the title became extinct, while the estates devolved upon the latter's distant cousin Thomas Foley of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, for whom the title was revived in 1776.

References

1. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/foley-thomas-iii-1673-1733|title=FOLEY, Thomas III (1673-1733), of Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcs.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 25 March 2018}}
2. ^The evidence for this is principally that he and his successors purchased pig iron from the blast furnaces of others, and their names thus appear in the furnace accounts.
3. ^ {{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=3&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27foley%27%29|title=Fellows details|publisher=Royal Society|accessdate= 25 March 2018}}

Stuart Handley, 'Foley, Thomas, first Baron Foley (1673–1733)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 2 March 2008
Burkes Peerage.

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