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Thomas Colepeper (died 1613)


Thomas Colepeper (ca. 1561 – 1613), was an English Member of Parliament.

He was the eldest son of John Colepeper of Wigsell and educated at Hart Hall, Oxford (1579) and the Middle Temple (1583).

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Winchelsea in 1597 and Rye in 1601.

He married twice:firstly Anne, the daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney, Lord Mayor of London, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter and secondly Mary, the daughter and coheiress of Roger Beeston of London and widow of Francis Gibbon of Benenden, Kent, with whom he had another son and 3 daughters. He was succeeded by his second son John after his eldest son's early death.



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