Thomas Harley (politician, born 1730)

rdf:langString Thomas Harley (politician, born 1730)

rdf:langString Barlow Trecothick 1768–1774

rdf:langString Frederick Bull 1773–1774

rdf:langString Richard Oliver 1770–1774

rdf:langString Robert Biddulph 1780–1801

rdf:langString Sir George Cornewall, Bt 1774–1780

rdf:langString Sir Richard Glyn, Bt 1761–1768

rdf:langString Sir Robert Ladbroke 1771–1773

rdf:langString William Beckford 1761–1770

rdf:langString Member of Parliament for Herefordshire

rdf:langString Member of Parliament for London

rdf:langString The Honourable Thomas Harley (24 August 1730 – 1 December 1804) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 41 years from 1761 to 1802. Harley was the fourth son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and educated at Westminster School. He became an alderman of London, Sheriff of London in 1764 and Lord Mayor of London in 1767. He served as Member of Parliament for London from 1761 to 1774 and then for his native Herefordshire for most of the rest of his life. In 1775 he bought the Berrington estate near Eye, Herefordshire from the Cornewall family and built Berrington Hall in 1778–1781 in place of an older house. It is now classified as a Grade I listed building. He was elected Mayor of Shrewsbury for 1784–85 and appointed Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire for April 1791 to August 1804. He died in December, 1804. He had married in 1752, Anne, the daughter of Edward Bangham, deputy Auditor of the Imprest. They had two sons, who both predeceased him, and five daughters. He gave Berrington to his daughter Anne when she married George Rodney (1753–1802), the son of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. Another daughter Martha married George Drummond of Stanmore.