Thomas Sclater [SEP] date of death
Thomas Sclater
Thomas Sclater (c. 1664 – 23 August 1736), later Thomas Bacon, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1713 and 1736.
Early life.
Sclater was the son of Edward Sclater of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire and his wife Frances Thompson, daughter of Leonard Thompson, Lord Mayor of York. His father died when he was young and after 1673 he was brought up by his stepfather Edward Thompson. He was educated at
Sclater baronets
The Sclater Baronetcy, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 25 July 1660 for Thomas Sclater, of Catley Park, sometime High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1684. He devised his estates to his great-nephew Thomas Sclater, Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire, who assumed the additional surname of Bacon in circa 1716.
Sclater baronets, of Cambridge (1660).
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