Thomas Coventry, 2nd Earl of Coventry

Thomas Coventry married Anne Somerset (pictured), with whom he had one son. The inscription on this painting is false.

Thomas Coventry, 2nd Earl of Coventry (died August 1710) was an English peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Hon. Thomas Coventry from 1685 to 1697 and Viscount Deerhurst until 1699.[1]

From 1690 to 1696, he was a deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire. He inherited the earldom from Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry in 1699, and was shortly thereafter appointed Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire, an office he held until his death in 1710. He was also Recorder of Coventry.[1]

Coventry married Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, by whom he had one son, Thomas Coventry, 3rd Earl of Coventry.

References

  1. 1 2 Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 1. London: Longmans, Green. p. 470.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Coventry
Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire
1699–1710
Succeeded by
The Earl of Plymouth
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Thomas Coventry
Earl of Coventry
1699–1710
Succeeded by
Thomas Coventry
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