George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham

He was re-elected MP for Higham Ferrers in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

[2] He was High Sheriff of Kent for 1636-37, and Colonel of the St Augustine Lathe Trained Band at the time of the First Bishops' War in 1639.

[3] On the outbreak of the First English Civil War, he was named a deputy lieutenant for Kent, and was on the royalist committee for the county in 1643.

He had failed (it was said) to continue the endowment of Throwley free school as purposed by his father, had improperly executed the will of his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Freeman, and had generally mismanaged his sons' education.

On 7 August 1655, the younger son, Freeman, aged nineteen, apparently actuated by jealousy, killed his elder brother George, while he was asleep in an upper room in Lees Court, by a blow on the back of the head with a cleaver.

The fratricide proved a theme for the pulpit: Robert Boreman at once issued 'A Mirrour of Mercy and Judgment, or an exact true narrative of the Life and Death of Freeman Sonds, Esq.,' 1655.

... by William Annand Junior of Throwllgh, whereunto is annexed a Prayer compiled by his sorrowful Father,' 1655.. Sondes was succeeded in his titles by special remainder by his son-in-law, Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, who had married his daughter, Lady Mary Sondes, on 9 March 1676.