The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Thomas Gascoigne, 4th Baronet (c. 1659 - c. 1718)

Of the Gascoigne Baronetcy, of Barnbow and Parlington in the County of York. Probably the Sir Thomas Gascoigne who was donor to an associate of Ralph Thoresby. Sir Thomas Gascoigne had dinner with Ralph Thoresby on 11 August 1709 at "[the] place was of old the seat of the Greenfields (of whom a Serjesant-at-law is buried in Berwick Church,) now of the Gascoignes, from the time of King James I. as I conjecture from the ornaments of lions and univorns in the great dining-rrom" (Hunter, 2: 52). Relevant locations: Residence at Parlington Hall, Yorkshire
Relationships: Thomas Gascoigne was a friend of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
as Subject of/in a work of art - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Sir Tho. Gascoigne in small upon Copper. Not to mention Family-Pieces, though some are of good Workmanship, particularly one in Miniature to be worn upon the Breast.