• Source: Thomas Whorwood of Holton

    • Thomas Whorwood of Holton (1718–1771) was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.


    Biography


    Thomas was born in 1718. He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School) (1730–1735) and later Wadham College, Oxford.
    In 1744, Thomas was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.

    Following the death of his father, Thomas Whorwood senior, in 1736, he was Lord of the Manors of Headington and Holton in Oxfordshire. He married (Ann) Penelope Schutz of Shotover in Westminster in 1746, but they had no children. He died in 1771.


    See also


    List of Old Abingdonians


    References

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