Thomas Barrett 1698-1757

Thomas BARRETT 1698-1757

Biographical Note

Son of George Barrett, Bencher of Gray's Inn. Matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1717, but did not graduate. He had an estate at Lee near Canterbury where (according to his obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine) he lived as "a gentleman of great elegance and fine taste, to which, in a life as retired as was consistent with sociability, and an extensive knowledge of men and manners, were conjoined the utmost regularity, unfeigned piety, and the truest both conjugal and parental affection". He was married four times and was buried (alongside all the wives) in Lee Church.

Books

Barrett used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 1605); the extent and disposition of his library is not known, but his estate passed to his only surviving son Thomas, by his fourth wife.

Sources

• Thomas Barrett, Wikitree.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
• Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.