Thomas Chester (c. 1524 – 1583) was the member of Parliament for the constituency of Bristol for the parliament of 1563 and Gloucestershire for the parliament of 1572.[1]

The son of a wealthy [Bristol] merchant William Chester (d. 1558), he served as sheriff of Bristol in 1559 before being elected to parliament for the city in 1567, when [John Walshe] became a judge. He became a major landowner through the purchase of the manor and hundred of Barton Regis.[2] He subsequently bought the manor of [Almondsbury], where he established his family.[3] When 1573 Giles Brydges succeeded to the family peerage, Chester was chosen to replace him as MP for Gloucestershire.[1] He died in Bristol in 1583.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 CHESTER, Thomas (by 1524-83), of Bristol and Almondsbury, Glos. History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Waters, Robert Edmund Chester (1881). Genealogical memoirs of the families of Chester of Bristol, Barton Regis, London, and Almondsbury. p. 30.
  3. ↑ Maclean, John (1885). The visitation of the county of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623. p. 39.
  4. ↑ Genealogical memoirs of the families of Chester of Bristol, Barton Regis, London, and Almondsbury. p. 32.


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