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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.