Biography of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry 1578-1640

Paternal Family Tree: Coventry

In 1578 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry.

In 1592 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 14) was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.

In 1594 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 16) admitted at Inner Temple.

In or before 1606 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 28) and Sarah Sebright (age 22) were married.

In 1606 [his son] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 28) and [his wife] Sarah Sebright (age 23).

In or before 1610 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 32) and Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 29) were married.

Around 1610 [his daughter] Mary Coventry Lady Thynne Kempsford was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 32) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 30).

In 1612 [his son] Francis Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 34) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 32).

In 1612 [his daughter] Anne Coventry Baroness Savile was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 34) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 32).

In 1619 [his son] Henry Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 41) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 39).

In 1623 [his daughter] Dorothy Coventry Lady Pakington was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 45) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 43).

In Oct 1624 John Pakington 1st Baronet (age 24) died. His son John Pakington 2nd Baronet (age 3) succeeded 2nd Baronet Pakington. He bacame the ward of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 46) whose daughter Dorothy Coventry Lady Pakington (age 1) he subsequently married.

Around 1626 Cornelius Johnson (age 32). Portrait of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 48) as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Charlecote Park.

On 20 Dec 1626 [his brother-in-law] Edward Sebright 1st Baronet (age 41) was created 1st Baronet Sebright of Besford in Worcestershire.

On 02 Apr 1627 [his son] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry (age 21) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Craven (age 25) were married.

Around 1628 [his son] William Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 50) and [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 48).

On 10 Apr 1628 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 50) was created 1st Baron Coventry. [his wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 48) by marriage Baroness Coventry.

On 29 Dec 1629 [his son-in-law] William Savile 3rd Baronet (age 17) and [his daughter] Anne Coventry Baroness Savile (age 17) were married.

Before 1636 [his son] John Coventry and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Coles were married.

On 25 Feb 1639 [his son-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 1st Earl Shaftesbury (age 17) and [his daughter] Margaret Coventry were married.

Before 1640 [his son-in-law] Henry Thynne 1st Baronet (age 25) and [his daughter] Mary Coventry Lady Thynne Kempsford (age 29) were married.

On 14 Jan 1640 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 62) died. His son [his son] Thomas Coventry 2nd Baron Coventry (age 34) succeeded 2nd Baron Coventry.

On 25 May 1653 [his former wife] Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry (age 73) died.

Before 05 Aug 1661 Cornelius Johnson (age 67). Portrait of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry.

Pepy's Diary. 27 Jun 1666. Up, and to my office awhile, and then down the river a little way to see vessels ready for the carrying down of 400 land soldiers to the fleete. Then back to the office for my papers, and so to St. James's, where we did our usual attendance on the Duke (age 32). Having done with him, we all of us down to [his son] Sir W. Coventry's (age 38) chamber (where I saw his father my Lord Coventry's picture hung up, done by Stone, who then brought it home. It is a good picture, drawn in his judge's robes, and the great seale by him. And while it was hanging up, "This", says Sir W. Coventry (age 38), merrily, "is the use we make of our fathers",) to discourse about the proposition of serving us with hempe, delivered in by my Lord Brouncker (age 46) as from an unknown person, though I know it to be Captain Cocke's (age 49). My Lord and Sir William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for his private ends, being, as Cocke (age 49) tells me himself, to have £500 if the bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is, which seems the more ingenious of the two. I sat by and said nothing, being no great friend to the proposition, though Cocke (age 49) intends me a convenience by it. But what I observed most from the discourse was this of Sir W. Coventry (age 38), that he do look upon ourselves in a desperate condition. The issue of all standing upon this one point, that by the next fight, if we beat, the Dutch will certainly be content to take eggs for their money (that was his expression); or if we be beaten, we must be contented to make peace, and glad if we can have it without paying too dear for it. And withall we do rely wholly upon the Parliament's giving us more money the next sitting, or else we are undone.

Pepy's Diary. 26 Aug 1666. Thence to discourse of the times; and he tells me he believes both my Lord Arlington (age 48) and [his son] Sir W. Coventry (age 38), as well as my Lord Sandwich (age 41) and Sir G. Carteret (age 56), have reason to fear, and are afeard of this Parliament now coming on. He tells me that Bristoll's (age 53) faction is getting ground apace against my Chancellor (age 57). He told me that my old Lord Coventry was a cunning, crafty man, and did make as many bad decrees in Chancery as any man; and that in one case, that occasioned many years' dispute, at last when the King (age 36) come in, it was hoped by the party grieved, to get my Chancellor (age 57) to reverse a decree of his. Sir W. Coventry (age 38) took the opportunity of the business between the Duke of Yorke (age 32) and the Duchesse (age 29), and said to my Chancellor (age 57), that he had rather be drawn up Holborne to be hanged, than live to see his father pissed upon (in these very terms) and any decree of his reversed. And so the Chancellor (age 57) did not think fit to do it, but it still stands, to the undoing of one Norton, a printer, about his right to the printing of the Bible, and Grammar, &c.

In 1697 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry (age 68) was created 1st Earl Coventry with a special remainder to issue of [his brother] Walter Coventry brother to the 1st Baron Coventry. Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry (age 27) by marriage Countess Coventry.

[his daughter] Margaret Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry and Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry.

[his son] John Coventry was born to Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry and Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry.

Royal Descendants of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry 1578-1640

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom x 1

Diana Spencer Princess Wales x 1