Thomas Master (1663 - 1710) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1685 to 1690.
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain. In 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Ireland, that house was in turn replaced by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Master was the son of Thomas Master of Cirencester Abbey and his wife Elizabeth Dyke, daughter of Sir Thomas Dyke of Horeham, Waldron, Sussex and was baptised on 4 June 1663. He was a student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1680 and succeeded his father in the same year. In 1685, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cirencester. He also became Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Gloucestershire in 1685. He was relieved of these positions in February and March 1688 bur was restored to the position of J.P. in October 1688. In 1689 he was re-elected MP for Cirencester. He was commissioner for assessment from 1689 to 1690. [1]
Thomas Master was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
Abbey House, Cirencester was a country house in the English county of Gloucestershire that developed on the site of the former Cirencester Abbey following the dissolution and demolition of the abbey at the Reformation in the 1530s. The site of the dissolved abbey of Cirencester was granted in 1564 to Richard Master, physician to Queen Elizabeth I. Dr. Master died in 1588, and it was probably either his son, George, or more probably his grandson, Sir William Master, who demolished the old monastery buildings and constructed the house depicted in an engraving of c.1710 by John Kip. This early 17th-century house was five bays square, with a projecting three-storey porch and two bay windows on the entrance front facing Dollar Street. Nothing is known of the internal planning of the house, which is regrettable since this was clearly one of several Gloucestershire houses in which the traditional layout of a central hall with office and family wings was abandoned. The square ground plan adopted at the Abbey House made symmetrical external treatment easier, but caused difficulties with lighting and roofing, which seem not to have been happily resolved here, since Kip shows that internal gulleys were needed to dispose of the water from the roof.
Christ Church is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Christ Church is a joint foundation of the college and the Cathedral of the Oxford diocese, which serves as the college chapel and whose dean is ex officio the college head.
Master died at the age of about 47 and was buried at Cirencester on 14 Sept. 1710. [1]
Master married Elizabeth Driver, daughter of John Driver of Aston, Gloucestershire under a marriage settlement of June 1688. He had one son Thomas who was also MP for Cirencester. [1]
Thomas Master, of Cirencester Abbey, Wiltshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1712 to 1747.
