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He inherited the property of his maternal grandfather. Miss Seward mentions this gentlemen as " having given to the public prints repeated proofs of his fine poetic talents."

Thomas married Mary Grove in 1805. Mary was born before 1805; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grandfather of Thomas Henry Lister, author of Granby

Lister was returned for Clitheroe on the death of his brother, to hold the seat during his nephew's minority. There is no record of his having spoken or voted during his twelve years in Parliament. He was classed as a Tory by Bute, December 1761; Rockingham, November 1766; and Newcastle, 2 Mar. 1767. Jenkinson in the autumn of 1763 described him as 'pro', and as an 'absent friend' over general warrants, 18 Feb. 1764. He appears in both Robinson's surveys on the royal marriage bill, March 1772, as 'doubtful, absent'. In March 1773 his nephew, Thomas Lister, came of age, and Lister immediately vacated his seat.

Nathaniel married Martha Fletcher about 1753. Martha (daughter of John (of Litchfield) Fletcher) died in Dec 1811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Martha, da. and h. of John Fletcher, recorder of Lichfield, 2s. 4da.

Thomas married Beatrix Hulton on 3 Dec 1748. Beatrix (daughter of Jessop Hulton, of Hulton Park and Farneworth and Mary Haselden) was born in 1722; was christened in 26/1181722 in Bolton, Lancs; died on 28 Nov 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Research):Possibly the John Fletcher of Lichfield (qv) whose daugher and co-heir Mary Fletcher married John Muckleston of Merrington. This John Fletcher was the son of Frances Thicknesse and Charles Fletcher of Balterley (Batterley). Frances is the daughter of Ralph Thicknesse of Balterley (b 1640) who married (1663) Bridget Egerton (dau of Sir John Egerton, 2nd Bart of Wrinehill)

Lease and Release: for ?135: Rev. John Fletcher Muckleston and Martha Lister widow both of the Cathedral Close Litchfield (heirs of John Fletcher dec'd.) to Sir Robert Lawley of Canwell;
16-17 Dec 1799