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unusual facts about Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry


Elmley Castle

It contains grand monuments to Thomas, 1st Earl of Coventry and 17th century effigies of members of the Savage family.


Croome collection

Thomas Coventry (1662-1710) 2nd Earl of Coventry, 6th Baron Coventry of Aylesborough

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

He passed sentence of death on Lord Audley in 1631, drafted and enforced the proclamation of 20 June 1632 ordering the country gentlemen to leave London, and in 1634 joined in William Laud's attack on the Earl of Portland for peculation.

In the Star Chamber Coventry was one of John Lilburne's judges in 1637, but he generally showed conspicuous moderation, inclining to leniency in the cases of Richard Chambers in 1629 for seditious speeches, and of Henry Sherfield in 1632 for breaking painted glass in a church.

On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted.

Timothy Turner

His initial practice was centered around Ludlow, the legal center of Wales and the Marches, but he was of little note officially until 1626, when he became a justice of the peace for Shropshire, through the influence either of Sir Thomas Coventry, or Ellesmere's son and heir the Earl of Bridgewater.


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