** Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton ( d. 1667 )

* July 30 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician ( b. 1505 )

* May 16 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman ( b. 1607 )

** Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician ( d. 1550 )

In fact, in the early weeks of his Protectorate, Somerset met opposition only from the Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, whom the Earldom of Southampton had evidently failed to buy off, and from his own brother.

While Bloomsbury was not the first area of London to have acquired a formal square, Bloomsbury Square, laid out in 1660 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton as Southampton Square, was the first square to be named as such .< ref name = LondonEncyc >< cite > The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.

In the 16th century, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown, and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton.

Lily's pupils included William Paget, John Leland, Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baron North.

On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied ; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected ; for Buckingham first shared, and soon surpassed him, in the royal favour.

The felony of buggery ( sodomy ), like all other felonies, carried a sentence of capital punishment by hanging, but Udall wrote an impassioned plea to his old friends from Cromwell's household Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler ; then joint principal secretaries of state, and his sentence was reduced to just under a year in the Marshalsea prison.

He was twice married: first to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton ; and secondly to Frances, daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst.

On the recommendation of General Monck and Cooper's wife's uncle, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Charles appointed Cooper to his privy council on 27 May 1660. Cooper took advantage of the Declaration of Breda and was formally pardoned for his support of the English Commonwealth on 27 June 1660.

From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

# Alexander Charles Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1950 ), great-great-grandson of Lt .- Col. Lord Charles James Fox Russell, seventh son of the 6th Duke

# John Paul Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1995 ), only son of Alexander Russell

Opening of Parliament by Henry VIII at Bridewell Palace | Bridewell in 1523 ; a contemporary illustration from the Sir Thomas Wriothesley | Wriothesley Garter Book

The pursuivants to the left are identified by their reversed tabards, while the figure in the right ( with the black hat ) is probably Garter King of Arms Thomas Wriothesley | Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

Roll of grants of arms during the Tudor period by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, c 1528

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 ), known as The Lord Wriothesley between 1544 and 1547, was a politician of the Tudor period born in London to William Wrythe and Agnes Drayton.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

* 1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon ( d. 1985 )

* 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist ( d. 1627 )

* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )

* 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar ( d. 1757 )

* 1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor ( d. 1993 )

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Famous casuistic authors include Antonio Escobar y Mendoza, whose Summula casuum conscientiae ( 1627 ) enjoyed a great success, Thomas Sanchez, Vincenzo Filliucci ( Jesuit and penitentiary at St Peter's ), Antonino Diana, Paul Laymann ( Theologia Moralis, 1625 ), John Azor ( Institutiones Morales, 1600 ), Etienne Bauny, Louis Cellot, Valerius Reginaldus, Hermann Busembaum ( d. 1668 ), etc.

However, in the late 15th century, Thomas Malory created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, a work based mostly on the French romances.

The main magazine of this group from 1884 – 1957 was The Fraternal Visitor, whose editors included J. J. Bishop and J. J. Hadley ( d. 1912 ), then Thomas Turner, and finally Cyril Cooper ( till reunion in 1957 ).

* 1981 – Thomas Herrion, American football player ( d. 2005 )

* 1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor ( d. 1995 )

* 1475 – Thomas Murner, German writer ( d. c. 1537 )

* 1716 – Thomas Gray, English writer ( d. 1771 )

* 1873 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer ( d. 1953 )

* 1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist ( d. 1885 )

* 1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral ( d. 1860 )

In addition to the reviews above are the Revue Thomiste, founded by Père Thomas Coconnier ( d. 1908 ), and the Analecta Ordinis Prædicatorum ( 1893 ).