Thynne (family)

Coat of arms of the Marquess of Bath (fields 1 and 4: Botteville; fields 2 and 3: Thynne family coat of arms )

Longleat House, home of the Thynne family

The Thynne family is a British aristocratic family whose head is Marquess of Bath .

Origin and history up to the 17th century

The family traces its ancestry back to the mercenary leader Geoffrey Boteville from Poitou , who is said to have been in the service of King John Ohneland at the beginning of the 13th century and who later settled in Shropshire . His descendants lived from then on as smaller yeoman farmers in Shropshire. In the 16th century a William Thynne received a high office at the court of King Henry VIII. His Church Stretton nephew John Thynne came to London through him and became administrator of the Lord Protector Somerset . As a result, he was able to acquire extensive property in south-west England as well as the dissolved Longleat monastery near Warminster , in whose place he built a magnificent country house. His son John Thynne was able to expand the family's property to include extensive estates in Shropshire and Gloucestershire by marrying Joan Hayward, who came from a wealthy London merchant family . In the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous members of the family were elected as members of the House of Commons . In 1639 the younger son Henry Frederick Thynne inherited the estates in Shropshire and Gloucestershire and established a branch line of the family. As a royalist he was promoted to baronet in 1641 . His son Thomas Thynne inherited Longleat in 1682 after the childless death of his eponymous cousin Thomas Thynne , who was considered one of the richest non-aristocratic Englishmen, and thus reunited the family estates. He was raised to Viscount Weymouth and Baron Thynne in 1682 .

Influential noble family in the 18th and 19th centuries

The Thynne family were generally considered to be Anglican, anti-Catholic and Tories, but due to the long minority of the 2nd Viscount they had less political influence in the first half of the 18th century. As landlords, the family was able to acquire dominant influence on Borough Weobley in Hertfordshire from 1750 , which was henceforth the family's pocket borough . Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth was established through good relations and the favor of King George III. Secretary of State and Marquess of Bath in 1789 . Until the end of the reign of George III. he and other members of the family held high court positions. His younger brother Henry Thynne inherited the property of the Carteret family in 1776 and was promoted to Baron Carteret in 1784 . This branch line became extinct again in 1849. Until the constituency reform in 1832 , the family had great political influence because of their wealth, so that numerous family members were elected as MPs for Weobley, Wiltshire or other constituencies. Even after the constituency reform, in which the Weobley constituency was dissolved, the family retained considerable political influence, and until the first half of the 20th century had several MPs for the House of Commons.

Preservation of family property in the 20th century

Due to the economic decline of the large estates and due to high inheritance taxes, the 6th Marquess of Bath opened Longleat for tourists in 1949. He and his son, the 7th Marquess , continued to expand the company so that Longleat is still family-owned and one of the most visited mansions in Great Britain.

Master list (extract)

Until the 2nd Viscount Weymouth

William Thynne
Thomas Thynne
1. John Thynne († 1580)
  1. John Thynne (around 1550–1604)
    1. Thomas Thynne 1578-1639
      1. Sir James Thynne (1605-1670)
      2. Thomas Thynne (around 1610–1669)
        Thomas Thynne (around 1648–1682)
    2. Henry Thynne, 1st Baronet (1615-1680)
      1. Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth (1640-1714)
        Henry Thynne (1675-1708)
      2. James Thynne (1644-1709)
      3. Henry Thynne (around 1644–1709)
        Thomas Thynne († 1710)
        Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710–1751)
  2. Thomas Thynne (before 1566-1625)

From the 2nd Viscount Weymouth

Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710–1751)
1. Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (1734–1796)
  1. Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765–1837)
    1. Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth (1796-1837)
    2. Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath (1797–1837)
      1. John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1831-1896)
        
        Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath (1862–1946)
        
        John Thynne, Viscount Weymouth (1895-1916)
        
        Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905-1992)
        Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (1932-2020)
        Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath (* 1974)
        John Thynn, Viscount Weymouth (* 2014)
        
        Alexander Thynne (1873-1918)
      2. Henry Thynne (1832-1904)
        Ulric Thynne (1871-1957)
    3. John Thynne (1798-1881)
    4. William Thynne (1803-1890)
    5. Edward Thynne (1807-1884)
  2. George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret (1770–1838)
  3. John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret (1772–1849)
2. Henry Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret (1735–1826)

Web links

Weymouth, Viscount (E, 1682) at Cracroft's Peerage
Bath, Marquess of (GB, 1789) at Cracroft's Peerage

Individual evidence

^ History of Parliament Online: THYNNE, John (1512 / 13-80), of London and Longleat, Wilts. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
^ Alan Marshall: Thynne, Thomas (1647 / 8-1682). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
^ Henry Lancaster: Thynne, Thomas, first Viscount Weymouth (bap. 1640, d. 1714). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
^ History of Parliament Online: Weobley. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
^ Henry Frederick Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret of Hawnes on thepeerage.com , accessed September 24, 2015.
↑ Anglotopia: Top 11 Stately Homes in England - Best English Manor Houses. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .

[1] History of Parliament Online: THYNNE, John (1512 / 13-80), of London and Longleat, Wilts. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .

[2] Alan Marshall: Thynne, Thomas (1647 / 8-1682). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

[3] Henry Lancaster: Thynne, Thomas, first Viscount Weymouth (bap. 1640, d. 1714). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

[4] History of Parliament Online: Weobley. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .

[5] Henry Frederick Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret of Hawnes on thepeerage.com , accessed September 24, 2015.

[6] Anglotopia: Top 11 Stately Homes in England - Best English Manor Houses. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .