Thomas Walcot

Sir Thomas Walcot SL (6 August 1629 – 6 September 1685) was an English judge and politician.

Thomas Walcot, born 6 August 1629, was the second son of Humphrey Walcot (1586-1650) and his wife Anne Docwra (d.1675), whose mother, Jane (née Peryam) Docwra, was the daughter of Sir William Peryam.^[1][2] Walcot had an elder brother, John, and a younger brother, William.

Walcot entered Trinity College, Cambridge on 16 May 1646,^[3] became a member of the Middle Temple on 12 November 1647, and was called to the Bar there on 25 November 1653. On 15 February 1662 he became Attorney-General of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, and in April 1676 a Justice of the North Wales circuit. On 3 September 1679 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow, becoming a Serjeant-at-Law in May 1680 and a Justice of the King's Bench on 22 October 1683, a position he held until his death on 6 September 1685.^[1]

On 10 December 1663, Walcot married Mary Littleton (d. 1695), the daughter of Sir Adam Littleton of Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire. Their only child, Thomas Walcot, died in infancy.^[1]

• Handley, Stuart (2004). "Walcot, Sir Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28430. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Burton, John R. (1905). "The Sequestration Papers of Humphrey Walcot". Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 3rd series. Vol. V. Shrewsbury: Adnitt and Naunton. pp. 303–348.

• Walcot, Thomas (1629-85), History of Parliament
• Walcot, John (1624-1702), History of Parliament