Harington, Thomas (1400 - 1460)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1400

Death Date: 1460-12-29 (killed at the Battle of Wakefield)

Notes

Attainted after the battle of Bloreheath 23 Sept. 1459; imprisoned at Chester until restored after the Yorkist victory at Northampton 10 July 1460

Parents

Mother: Neville, Margaret ( - 1451)

Father: Harington, William ( - 1439/40)

Marriages/Other Unions

Dacre, Elizabeth ( - )
Type: marriage
Union began: 1419
Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Female

Harington, Isabel ( - 1441)

Offspring

From Dacre, Elizabeth ( - )
Male offspring: Harington, John ( - 1460)
From Dacre, Elizabeth ( - )
Male offspring: Harington, James (1430 - 1487)
From Dacre, Elizabeth ( - )
Male offspring: Harington, Robert (1435 - 1487)

Primary Title

Knight

Titles

Knight
Assumed: 1448-05-04
Vacated: 1460-12-31

Details of Offices

	Began	Ended	Notes
Steward, Lancashire			Acted as Deputy to the Earl of Salisbury in the 1440s
MP, Lancashire	1432
MP, Lancashire	1437
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1440
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Westmorland	1441
MP, Lancashire	1442
MP, Lancashire	1447
JP, Cumberland	1447/8
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1448
MP, Lancashire	1449
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1451/2
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1454
Steward, Lancashire	1454	1455
MP, Yorkshire	1455
Sheriff, Yorkshire	1455 -11 -4	1456 -11 -17
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1456
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1458
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding	1460

Details of Properties

Residence

Brierly, Yorkshire: West Riding
Hornby Castle, Lancashire
(Performance Venue)
Acquired: 1451
Divested: 1460-12
Inherited via mother

Lands

Lancashire: Hornby & Farleton in Lonsdale Manors
Acquired: 1440
Divested: 1460
Patrimony
Lancashire: Tatham & Heysham Manors
Acquired via wife
Lincolnshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type	Date	Location	Troupe
Performance	1447 - 1447	Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire	Mr Thomas Harington's Minstrel/s
Performance	1448 - 1448	Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire	Sir Thomas Harington's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name	Patron	Troupe Type	# of events
Mr Thomas Harington's Minstrel/s	Harington, Thomas (1400 - 1460)	Entertainers/Minstrels	1
Sir Thomas Harington's Minstrels	Harington, Thomas (1400 - 1460)	Entertainers/Minstrels	1

Owned Venues

Venue Name	County	Type
Hornby Castle	Lancashire	Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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Hornyold-Strickland, H. Biographical Sketches of the Members of Parliament of Lancashire (1290--1550). Manchester: Manchester UP, 1935
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Wedgwood, Josiah C., and Anne D. Holt. The History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House 1439–1509. London: HMSO, 1936