View source for Thomas Brotherton ca.1656-1702

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===[[name::Thomas]] [[name::BROTHERTON]]  ca.[[date of birth::1656]]-[[date of death::1702]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::John Brotherton]] of the [[location::Hey, Newton, Lancashire]], a gentry family settled there since at least the 16th century.  Matriculated at [[education::Jesus College, Cambridge]] 1677, but did not graduate; entered [[organisations::Gray's Inn]] 1676, called to the Bar 1683.  [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Liverpool]] 1694-95, for [[location::Newton]] 1695-1701, where he was active as a Tory in debates, on committees and in drafting legislation. 

====Books==== 
Brotherton is listed in [[author::Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''Catalogi manuscriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 12 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]], mostly 16th and 17th century compilations on [[subject::law|legal]] and [[subject::politics|constitutional]] matters.  In his will, Brotherton [[bequest::bequeathed]] "all my study of books both in town and country", together with two pictures (portraits of himself and his wife) to his [[beneficiary::son]] [[family::Thomas Brotherton|Thomas]] during his life, and that afterwards "all my said books shall be and remain as heirlooms and go along with my manor house [[location::Hey]] into whose hands soever it shall come"; it is not known how long the collection remained together in line with this wish.

====Characteristic Markings==== 
None of Brotherton's books have been identified.

====Sources==== 
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*[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/brotherton-thomas-1656-1702 History of Parliament].
*Bernard, C. ''Catalogi manuscriptorum'', 1697, 236-8.  
*Venn, J. & J. A. ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. Cambridge, 1922.
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