Below are questions and answers about notable family connections to royalty, nobility and high society.
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Princess Elizabeth [6] thanked the Thrale family for hiding and securing her escape at Nomansland [7] from Queen Mary [8] between 1556 and 1558. When Elizabeth became Queen she repaid the Thrale family by giving them the family arms and a broad arrow [9].
William Trayle was Member of Parliament (M.P.) for the County in 1376 and 1381.
Johannes Trayle was Chevalier M.P. for Bedford Borough in 1541.
Michael Thrayle appears as M.P. for the Bedford Borough [12] in 1541.
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Ralph Thrale [14] 1698-1758 was M.P. for Southwark [15] between 1741 and 1747.
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His son Henry Thrale [17] 1730 - 1781 was also M.P. for Southwark between 23 December 1765 and September 1780 [18]. He was re-elected after coming second in the in the 1768 and October 1774 general elections. Henry was a Tory - like all brewers - and was together with Samuel Johnson was a fervent supporter of Lord North [19]. He was defeated in the 1780 election, which included an election address [20] which was written by Dr. Samuel Johnson [21].
One of Ralph Thrale's other children was Susannah Thrale [22]. She was twice married, both times to MPs! Her first husband was Thomas Scott M.P. for Bridport 1780-1790. Her second husband was Arnold Nesbitt M.P. (died 1779) for Cricklade [23] between 1761-1768 and 1774-1779.
Henry Thrale's godson, Jeremiah (Joseph) Crutchley [24] (1745 - 1801) sat as M.P. for Horsham [25] 1784-1790. He also owned Sunningdale Park in Berkshire.
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Queeney Thrale (Henry's eldest child) husband Viscount George Keith of Elphinstone [27] sat as Member of Parliament for Dunbarton [28] from 1781 - 1790, and later was M.P. for Stirlingshire [29] between 1796 and 1802.
It is speculated (by Hester Thrale in Thraliana [30] dated 1 March 1779) that Henry Thrale's sister Lady Mary Lade (1733-1802) [31] bore an illegitimate child for Colonel Sir Philip Jennings Clerke M.P. (died 1788) after the death of her husband Sir John Lade.1 This is not a definitive list, and there could well be further Thrale MPs. Please tell if you know of any others.
So far I have discovered three English Kings to which have been distantly related to a Thrale.
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The Thrale's had a taste for literary guests and literary guests had, on their part, a taste for her good dinners. James Boswell described "the witty and the eminent who assembled in numerous companies". Guests included the likes of:
* Samuel Johnson [48];
* Oliver Goldsmith [49];
* James Boswell [50];
* Arthur Murphy [51] 1727-18 June 1805 lawyer, dramatist and Henry Thrale’s oldest and dearest friend
* Sir Joshua Reynolds [52] painter and President of Royal Academy of Art [53] 1723-1792,
* Jeremiah (Joseph) Crutchley [24] 1745 - 28 December 1805 Henry Thrale’s godson,
* William Seward 1747-1799 anecdotist and son of a wealthy brewer of the firm Calvert and Seward,
* John Cator [54] died 21 February 1806 timber merchant of London and Beckenham,
* Bennet Langton [55] a scholar of Greek and close friend of Samuel Johnson 1737-1801,
* Topham Beauclerk [56] 2nd husband of Lady Diana Spencer [57] and close friend of Samuel Johnson 1739-1831,
* Sir John Hawkins [58] author 1719-1789,
* Edmund Burke [59] statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher 1729-1797,
* Thomas Percy [60] Bishop of Dromore, editor of Tatler, Guardian and Spectator, 1729-1811
* Dr. Christopher Nugent father-in law of Edmund Burke died 1775,
* Sir Robert Chambers [61] professor of law at Oxford and Judge 1737-1803,
* Samuel Dyer 1725-1772 writer and translator,
* James Woodhouse a shoemaker 1735-1820,
* Giuseppe Marc’ Antonio Baretti [62] 1719 - 5 May 1789 Queeney’s Italian tutor,
* Charles Burney [63] 1726-1814 musician, writer and Queeney’s [64] music tutor,
* Frances (Fanny) Burney [65] 1752-1840 (author of Evelina [66]),
* David Garrick [67] actor 1717-1779,
* William Henry Lyttelton Westcote later 1st Baron Lyttleton of Frankley [68] 1724-1808,
* Baronet William Weller Pepys 1740-1825 created a Baronet in 1801,
* James Harris [69], philosopher grammarian and author of Hermes,
* Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, Baronet of Duddlestone Hall 1722-1788 MP for Totnes,
* Baronet Sir Richard Jebb 1729-1787,
* James Wallace, Solicitor and Attorney-General,
* Elizabeth Montagu [70]1720-1800 ’Blue Stocking’ authoress, social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer.
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