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Thomas Pearce, P.C. (~1670 1739), was an English army officer, a privy councillor and a member of parliament.〔D W Hayton, ''Pearce, Thomas, History of Parliament Online, (accessed 24 December 2012 )〕 During the War of the Spanish Succession he was deputy commander-in-chief in Portugal later serving in Gibraltar. He was appointed to Ireland in 1715 spending his last five years in Dublin where he died in 1739, General of his Majesty's Forces in Ireland. ==Family== Third and youngest son of Edward Pearce (1620 1683) of Parson's Green Fulham and his wife Mary (1635 1728), daughter of Dudley Carleton and his second wife Lucy Croft.〔 Thomas was baptised 1 March 1669/1670 at St Mary-in-the-Marsh Norwich near his father's Whitlingham estate. Pearce married Mary daughter of William Hewes of Wrexham and his wife Sarah daughter of Thomas Wayte, governor of Beeston Castle, Cheshire. They had three sons and two daughters, daughter Ann married her first cousin, noted Irish architect Edward Lovett Pearce. Pearce had good political links through close family in London and Dublin. ''Major General Pearce's Regiment of Dragoons at disbanding 29 April 1713. includes brother and son'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Pearce (British Army officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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