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Authorised form of nameBury; Sir; Thomas (1655 - 1722)
Dates1655 - 1722
NationalityBritish
Date of birth1655
Date of death04 May 1722
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The parish church of Grantham, Lincolnshire
ActivityEducation:
Lincoln College, Oxford. BA (1668). Gray's Inn (admitted 1668)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1676); Serjeant-at-Law (1700); Recorder of Lincoln (1700); Baron of the Exchequer (1701), for which office he apparently gave Lord Keeper Wright a bribe of £1000; Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1716)
Honours:
Kt 1701
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/12/1718
RelationshipsSon of William Bury of Grantham and Linwood, Lincolnshire; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; GI
CodeNA1564
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/000690Bury, Sir Thomas1720
MS/390/177Bond of Sir Thomas Bury to the Treasurer of the Royal Society9 April 1719
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