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Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet

1615 – 1684

English politician

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Lived 1615 – 1684 (aged 69). Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet was a politician.

Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet (9 July 1615 – 10 December 1684) was an English academic, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Sclater was the son of William Sclater of Halifax Yorkshire and was baptised at Halifax on the day of his birth. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He was incorporated BA at Oxford University from 1635 to 1636 and was awarded MA in 1639. He was created Doctor of Medicine in 1649 and was incorporated at Cambridge University in that year. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge University in the Third Protectorate Parliament. Following the Restoration, he was created baronet of Cambridge on 25 July 1660. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from 1680 to 1681.

Sclater purchased Catley Park, south of Linton, and other estates in Cambridgeshire and built a mill at Hildersham.

Sclater married on 25 February 1653 Susan Comber, widow of Thomas Comber, Master of Trinity College a daughter of Freston of Norwich. He died at the age of 69 without heirs so the baronetcy became extinct.

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University of Oxford
Positions held
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Third Protectorate Parliament, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
Also known as
Sir Thomas Slaughter

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English politician (1615-1684)

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Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet was born on 9 July 1615 in Halifax.

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Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet died on 10 December 1684.

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Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet

· Wikidata: Q11800726

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