Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet (died 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1656.

Thomas Rivers, by Samuel Cooper after Peter Lely

Rivers was the son of James Rivers and his wife Charity Shirley, daughter of Sir John Shirley of Isfield Sussex. He succeeded his grandfather Sir John Rivers, 1st Baronet to the baronetcy in around 1651, his father having died earlier.[1]

In 1656, Rivers was elected Member of Parliament for Sussex in the First Protectorate Parliament.[2]

Rivers died unmarried in around 1657.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b John Burke A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage Volume 2
  2. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Sussex
1656
With: Herbert Morley
John Pelham
John Fagg
John Stapley
Anthony Shirley
George Courthope
Sir Thomas Parker
Samuel Gott
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Rivers
Baronet
(of Chafford)
1651–1657
Succeeded by
John Rivers