Thomas Winford

Sir Thomas WINFORD, 1st baronet d.1702

Sir Thomas Winford's bookplate (British Museum Franks *396)

Biographical Note

Younger son of Sir John Winford, of Glasshampton, Worcestershire. His education is not traced; he became second prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and was created a baronet in 1702, shortly before his death.

Books

Winford used an engraved armorial bookplate, dated 1702 (Franks 32227/*396); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.

Sources

• History of Parliament, for his nephew the 2nd baronet.
• Burke, J., A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies, London, 1844, 573-4.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.