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Windsor-Clives Redditch Heritage

Sir Thomas Windsor

6th Baron Windsor

1591 - 1642
Life and Times of Sir Thomas Windsor

Son of Henry and Anne m Jan 1607/08 Catherine daughter of Edward Somerset 4th earl
of Worcester. Childless.

Admitted Middle Temple 1600; licence to travel abroad 1607/8; Knight of the Bath at the
creation of Henry, Prince of Wales, 1610; Rear Admiral in the Swiftsure, sent to bring
Prince Charles out of Spain 1623.

Sir Thomas Windsor

7th Baron; 1st Earl of Plymouth
1627 - 1687

Life and Times of Sir Thomas Windsor

Son of the Hon. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry 5th Baron)
and Dixie Hickman. Thomas changed his name from
Hickman to Windsor in order to inherit the Barony.

m (1) 1656 Anne Savile (1634 - 1666)

Children: Mary (d 1694); Other (1659 - 1684); Ann (died
in infancy).
Sir Thomas Windsor - 7th Baron
Windsor; 1st Earl of Plymouth.
m (2) 1668 Ursula Widdington (not to be confused with
Judi Dench's character in Ladies in Lavender) (Source: Wikipedia)

Children:- Dixie (d. 1743);

William (d. 1682); Andrews;

Ursula (d. 1737); Elizabeth (d.1736);

Thomas (d. 1738)

He succeeded to the family estates at Hewell in 1645, the same year he distinguished
himself at the Battle of Naseby. He also impressed Charles 1 by relieving the Royalist
garrison at High Ercall.

The title baron Windsor was called out of Abeyance on 16th June 1660.

From 1661 to 1663 he served as Governor General of Jamaica.

Sir Thomas was interested in navigation of the Warwickshire Avon. Restoration of the
Pershore sluice enabled navigation from Tewkesbury up as far as Evesham. The rights to
the Avon navigation would be passed to his children, Andrews and Thomas, in the will of
Ursula.

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