Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cæsar, Thomas
CÆSAR, Sir THOMAS (1561–1610), judge, second son of Dr. Cæsar Adelmare, of whom a brief account will be found in the life of Sir Julius Cæsar, was born at Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, in 1561, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, which he left in 1578. He became a member of the Inner Temple in October 1580. His career at the bar was wholly undistinguished. Nevertheless, on 26 May 1610, he was created puisne or cursitor baron of the exchequer. He was knighted the ensuing month at Whitehall, and from an undated letter of his spiritual adviser, the Rev. D. Crashaw, relating the fact of his death and describing the ‘godly disposition’ in which he met it, endorsed by his brother Sir Julius with the date 18 July 1610, would seem to have died then or shortly before. The vacancy caused by his death was filled in the following October. He married thrice. His first wife died in 1590, leaving three children, who all died in infancy. His second wife was Anne, daughter of George Lynn of Southwick, Northamptonshire, and relict of Nicholas Beeston of Lincolnshire; she died without issue. By his third wife, Susan, daughter of Sir William Ryder, lord mayor of London in 1600, whom he married on 18 Jan. 1592–3, he had eight children, three sons and five daughters, who all survived him.
[Wood's Fasti Oxon. (Bliss), i. 271; Dugdale's Orig. 149; Chron. Ser. 102; Nichols's Progresses of James I, ii. 363; Lysons's Environs, iii. 451; Cal. State Papers (Dom. 1611–18), pp. 168, 210; Sloane MS. 4160 (extract from manuscript of Sir Julius Cæsar), ff. 8, 9; Add. MSS. 12497 f. 406, 12504 f. 123; Foss's Judges of England; Lodge's Life of Sir J. Cæsar, with Memoirs of his Family.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.48
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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