Sir Thomas Rivers, 2nd Baronet explained

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

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]

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iPjUAAAAMAAJ/page/n432 John Burke A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage Volume 2
2. 1. 2. 229–239.