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1596 - 1665
Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665).
School of Lely, c.1660-65.
Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665).
School of Lely, c.1655.
He fought at Edgehill and lost a large sum of money given to the Royalist cause and by sequestration, for which he was created Viscount in 1661.
His sister-in-law wrote of him:
'He was a very worthy, valient (sic), honest, good-natured gentleman, charitable and generous, and had excellent natural parts, yet choleric and rash, which was only incommode to his own domestic family.
He was a very pretty man (for he was but low), of a sanguine complexion, much of a gentleman in his mien and language'.
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