About Thomas Powell Symonds
Lived 1762 – 1819 (aged 56–57). Thomas Powell Symonds was a British politician.
Thomas Powell Symonds (1762 – 19 August 1819) was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford 1800 to 1819, and lieutenant colonel of the South Gloucester Militia.
Thomas Powell Symonds was the eldest son of Thomas Symonds Powell Symonds of Pengethley Manor (near Ross) and his wife Sarah Mary Rootes, daughter of Joseph Chester of Gloucester. He was the eldest of eight children and inherited Pengethley Manor from his father in 1793. He was appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1798–99.
Symonds married a Mary Rootes and fathered 7 sons. He was succeeded by his nephew, also Thomas Powell Symonds (son of Rev Joseph Symonds—T.S.P. Symonds' second son).
Coat of arms Coat of arms: Sa, a dolphin embowed holding in the mouth a fish arg. Crest: A dolphin as in the arms.
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British politician; (1762-1819)
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Thomas Powell Symonds died on 19 August 1819.
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