Sir Thomas Gower, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Gower, 1st Baronet (1584–1651) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight. He was an early member of the Leveson-Gower family. He was knighted by James I and was created a baronet on 2 June 1620. In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Family Thomas was the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Gower (military engineer and at one time Marshal of Berwick and later governor of Aymouth Fort), and his wife Mary, daughter of Gabriel Fairfax, Esq. of Steeton in Yorkshire. On 28 May 1604 Thomas married Anne Doyley, daughter and coheir to John Doyley, of Merton, Oxfordshire and by her (who died 28 October 1633, and was buried in the church of St Clement Danes in London) had issue Sir Thomas Gower, 2nd Baronet his successor, Doyley a colonel of dragoons, in the service of Charles I and other sons. Notes References Collins, Arthur (1812). Collins's peerage of England: genealogical, biographical, and historical, Volume 2, Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, J. Nichols and Co. T. Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, ... [and 21 others], 1812 Attribution 1584 births 1651 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Thomas Gower, 1st