Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh


Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII. He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.
Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593.
In February 1593, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. Burgh was met by Lord Seton and banqueted at Seton Palace. James VI of Scotland was in the north and Burgh had to wait in Edinburgh until the 14 March when he saw the king and discussed the risks of Spanish invasion. On 18 March he had an audience with Anne of Denmark and received "ill grace both of words and looks".
On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.
Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Pickering, by whom he had a son and four daughters:
Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.
In November 1613 his widow Frances, Lady Burgh, was given an allowance of £500 and went to join the household of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia at Heidelberg.
On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh.

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