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Thomas MEDLYCOTT or MEDLICOTT or MEDLICOT 1662-1738
Biographical Note
Younger son of Thomas Medlycott of Abingdon, lawyer. After admission to the Middle Temple in 1680 (barrister, 1687) he made his fortune in Ireland, where he moved in the late 1680s in the employ of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond. He became attorney-general for Tipperary in 1691, was an Irish MP for many years, and during the 1690s acquired significant property in Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland. He also had a career as a Westminster MP between 1705 and 1734, being variously elected for Milborne Port and Westminster.
Books
Medlycott used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 20303; according to the Franks catalogue, this is a reworked version of an anonymous plate made for Charles Medlycott, commissary of stores at Lisbon). The extent and disposition of his library is not known; his will has no specific mention of books, and the bulk of his estates were left in trust for the benefit of his illegitimate son Thomas John Medlycott, a child at the time of Thomas's death.
Sources
- Will of Thomas Medlycott, The National Archives PROB 11/691/199.
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.