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Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet of Lamport (15 March 1656/57 – 26 July 1681) is known for a diary he wrote from 1671 to 1673 of his observations as a teenage member of the English aristocracy.
Thomas Isham (1555-1605), known as the "Blind Squire", was the son of John Isham and Elizabeth Barker. He was born on Sept. 11, 1555 in London, and apparently lost his sight from an illness when he was young.
Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet of Lamport (15 March 1656/57 – 26 July 1681) is known for a diary he wrote from 1671 to 1673 of his observations as a teenage member of the English aristocracy. Sir Thomas Isham II, by Mary Beale. Life.
Tom Isham’s well known account of growing up in Northamptonshire is a quintessential record of everyday experience on a country estate. 1 Yet the story has not been told of how, following a demanding upbringing by his royalist father, Sir Justinian Isham, young Tom went off the rails when he inherited the Lamport estate in 1675.
- Anthony Fletcher
- 2010
Jul 2, 2022 · Birthplace: Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom) Death: 1547 (90-92) Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom) Immediate Family: Son of William Isham and Elizabeth Isham. Husband of Ellen Isham and Jane Kynnesman. Father of Richard Isham; Euseby ‘Enseby’ Isham; John Isham and Henry Isham.
- Ellen Isham, Jane Kynnesman
- Lord of Pytchley
- 1456
The diary of the youngest Isham, Thomas, is particularly interesting because it was written at the request of his father who promised him a small sum of money if he kept a diary in Latin in order to improve his proficiency in that language.
When Thomas Isham was born on 11 September 1555, in London, England, his father, John Isham of Lamport, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Barker, was 22. He married Elizabeth Nicholson on 10 October 1576, in Lamport, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
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