Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, Bt | |
Honorific Suffix: | FRS |
Office3: | Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury |
Term Start3: | 1807 |
Term End3: | 1811 |
Predecessor3: | Hon. Henry Grey Bennet Hon. William Hill |
Alongside3: | Hon. William Hill |
Successor3: | Hon. William Hill Hon. Henry Grey Bennet |
Office4: | Member of Parliament for Athlone |
Term Start4: | 1803 |
Term End4: | 1806 |
Predecessor4: | William Handcock |
Successor4: | George Tierney |
Office5: | Member of Parliament for Denbigh |
Term Start5: | 1801 |
Term End5: | 1802 |
Predecessor5: | Parliament of Great Britain |
Successor5: | Hon. Frederick West |
Term Start6: | 1797 |
Term End6: | 1800 |
Predecessor6: | Richard Myddelton |
Successor6: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Office7: | Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis |
Term Start7: | 1790 |
Term End7: | 1791 |
Predecessor7: | Welbore Ellis John Purling Sir Thomas Rumbold Gabriel Steward |
Alongside7: | Sir James Murray Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone Andrew Stuart |
Successor7: | Sir James Murray Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone Andrew Stuart Sir James Johnstone |
Birth Name: | Thomas Tyrwhitt |
Death Place: | Clarence Lodge, Roehampton |
Education: | Winchester College |
Alma Mater: | Christ Church, Oxford |
Parents: | John Tyrwhitt Katherine Booth |
Relations: | Peniston Booth (grandfather) |
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, 1st Baronet FRS (1 September 1765 – 26 November 1811)[1] of Stanley Hall, Shropshire, was a British politician.
Tyrwhitt was born on 1 September 1765. He was the eldest son of Captain John Tyrwhitt, RN, of Netherclay House, Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the former Katherine Booth, daughter and heiress of the Very Rev. Peniston Booth, Dean of Windsor and Katherine (Jones) Booth (a daughter of the Revd Canon Edward Jones). Among his siblings was Richard Tyrwhitt, a barrister who married Elizabeth Lipyeatt.
He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his cousin Sir Thomas Jones in 1782, adopting the additional surname of Jones in 1790.
He was the Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1790 to June 1791. Jones subsequently represented several other constituencies. He was MP for Denbigh Boroughs from January 1797 to 1802; Athlone from 22 August 1803 to 1806; and Shrewsbury from 1807 to 26 November 1811. He was created a baronet on 3 October 1808.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1800.[3]
He married Harriet Rebecca, the daughter of Edward Williams of Eaton Mascott, Shropshire, with whom he had three sons and two daughters,[2] including:
He died on 26 November 1811 at his residence, Clarence Lodge near Roehampton, now in south-west London. He was succeeded by Sir Thomas John Tyrwhitt Jones, 2nd Baronet, MP for Bridgnorth and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1816–1817.
Through his son Thomas, he was a grandfather of Sir Henry Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet, a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade who married Emma Harriet Wilson, suo jure Baroness Berners.[4]