SALUSBURY
,
Sir
THOMAS
(
1612
-
1643
),
poet and country gentleman
;
b.
6 March 1612
, eldest son of
Sir
Henry
Salusbury
of
Lleweni
, the
1st baronet
(q.v.)
, and
Hester
, daughter of
Sir
Thomas
Myddelton
. He went to
Jesus College
,
Oxford
, but did not graduate. He joined the
Inner Temple
,
Nov. 1631
, with the intention of studying law but, when his father d. at the end of
July 1632
, he returned to
Lleweni
to
look after the estate
. He was elected a
burgess
of
Denbigh
town,
10 Sept. 1632
, and an
alderman
,
1634-8
and
1639
, and he was also
Member of Parliament
for the county from
1640
until his death. He fought in the
Civil War
as a staunch
supporter of the king
and is believed to have been engaged in the
battle of Edgehill
,
23 Oct. 1642
; a few days later he was given the degree of
D.C.L.
by
Oxford University
. He d. in
July 1643
. He is referred to by
Anthony
Wood
as ‘
a most noted
poet
of his time
,’ but the only work of his which still survives is
The History of Joseph, a poem
(
London
,
1636
).
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
and the authorities quoted therein;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 222;
-
Pollard
and
Redgrave
,
A short-title catalogue of books printed in
England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books
printed abroad, 1475-1640
and
, London, 1926
, 500;
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
1551, 5390.
Author:
Emyr Gwynne Jones, M.A., (1911-72), Bangor
