Thomas Hanmer

Abt 1702 - 1737  (35 years)

• Name	Thomas Hanmer
  Birth	Abt 1702
  Gender	Male
  Death	1737
  Person ID	I85573	First tree
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	William Hanmer,   b. 1674   d. 1724 (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Esther Jennens,   b. 1670   d. 1770 (Age 100 years)
  Marriage	10 Nov 1701
  Family ID	F72076	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Catherine Perceval,   b. Bef 1733   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	9 Apr 1733
  Family ID	F74654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Hanmer (c. 1702– 1737), of Fenns, Shropshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1737. Hanmer was the eldest son of William Hanmer of Fenns, Shropshire and his wife Esther Jennens, daughter of Humphrey Jennens of Gopsall, Leicestershire. He was admitted at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on 25 April 1720 and was awarded BA in 1724. In 1724 he succeeded to the estates of his father. He was awarded MA at Cambridge in 1729 and was incorporated at Oxford University in 1731. He married (with £6,000), Lady Catherine Perceval, daughter of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont on 9 April 1733. At the 1734 British general election, Hanmer was returned as Member of parliament for Castle Rising on the Howard interest. He was presumably a Tory Hanmer was the prospective heir of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet, but died without issue of tuberculosis on 1 April 1737.