Thomas Weld (cardinal)
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His Eminence Cardinal Thomas Weld |
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| Cardinal-priest of San Marcello al Corso | |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | 3 April 1821 by Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen |
| Consecration | 6 August 1826 by William Poynter |
| Created Cardinal | 15 March 1830 |
| Rank | Cardinal-priest |
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| Born | 22 January 1773 London |
| Died | 10 April 1837 (aged 64) |
| Buried | Santa Maria in Aquiro, Rome |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Thomas and Mary Weld |
| Spouse | Lucy Bridget Clifford |
| Children | Mary Lucy Weld |
| Previous post | Coadjutor Bishop of Kingston and Titular Bishop of Amyclae |
Thomas Weld (22 January 1773 – 10 April 1837) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
A member of the Weld-Blundell family, Weld was born in London on 22 January 1773, the eldest son of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, by his wife Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Stanley Massey Stanley of Hooton, who belonged to the elder and Catholic branch of the Stanley family, now extinct.
He was educated at home under Charles Plowden. He supported religious communities that were driven into England by the French Revolution. He agreed with his father in giving the banished Jesuits the mansion of Stonyhurst. The Trappist nuns were received at Lulworth; while the Poor Clares of Gravelines and the Visitandines were also special objects of his bounty. George III, in his sojourns at Weymouth, used to visit Lulworth, and always expressed the greatest regard for the family.
On 14 June 1796 Weld married, at Ugbrooke, Lucy Bridget, second daughter of Thomas Clifford of Tixall, fourth son of Hugh, third Lord Clifford. Their only issue was Mary Lucy, born at Upwey, near Weymouth, on 31 January 1799. The loss of his wife at Clifton on 1 June 1815, and the subsequent marriage of his only child to her second cousin, Hugh Charles Clifford (afterwards seventh Baron Clifford), on 1 September 1818, left him at liberty to embrace the clerical state, and to renounce the family property to his next brother, Joseph Weld (see below). He placed himself under the direction of his old friend, the celebrated Abbé Carron, and Mgr Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, Archbishop of Paris, ordained him priest on 7 April 1821.
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