Sir Thomas Lethbridge, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, 2nd Baronet (21 February 1778 – 17 October 1849) was a British politician and military officer.

Origins

Banking, finance and commerce Lethbridge was the principal founder of the West Somerset Savings Bank at Taunton, on 6 September 1817. and was also colonel-commandant of the West Somerset Yeomanry.

Marriages and children Lethbridge married twice: Firstly, in 1796, to Jacintha Catherine Hesketh (d.1801), a member of the Hesketh family of Rufford Hall in Lancashire, by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter: John Hesketh Lethbridge, 3rd Baronet, eldest son and heir, who in 1817 married Harriet Rebecca Mytton, a daughter of John Mytton. Jacinta ("Jessy") Dorothea Lethbridge, who in 1818 married Ambrose Goddard (1779–1854), MP, of Swindon in Wiltshire, and was the mother of Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard, and of Emma Caroline Goddard who married Greville Phillimore. Secondly, in 1803, he married Anne Goddard, a daughter Ambrose Goddard, of Swindon in Wiltshire, by whom he had two sons and four daughters: Ambrose Goddard Lethbridge (died 1875), a barrister and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Thomas Prowse Lethbridge, who in 1834 married Isabella Escott, a daughter of Rev. Thomas Sweet Escott of Hartrow. Frances Margaret Lethbridge.