Thomas Geers

Thomas Geers Winford (c.1697–1753), of Bridge Sollers, near Hereford, and Glasshampton, Worcestershire was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1748.

Early life Geers Winford was the eldest son of Timothy Geers of Bridge Sollers and his wife Mercy Winford, daughter of Henry Winford of Glasshampton, Worcestershire. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 23 June 1719 and called to the bar in 1722.

Career Geers was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Hereford on a compromise at the 1727 British general election. He voted consistently with the Opposition and spoke occasionally. On 4 February 1730, he moved unsuccessfully for a vote of thanks to Dr. Samuel Croxall for his sermon preached at St. Margaret's, Westminster on the anniversary of the beheading of Charles I. This was based on the text "take the wicked from before the King and His throne shall be established as righteousness" and intended as an allusion to Walpole. Geers himself died on 23 May 1753. Upon the death of his daughter Sarah in 1805, her estate passed to Sir John Geers Cottrell, 1st Baronet (son of Sir John Cottrell, Sheriff of Herefordshire and of Anne Geers, only daughter of John Geers of Garnons, Herefordshire).