He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford and was admitted to Middle Temple in 1610.
[1] In 1620, Tracy was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire and held the seat until 1622.
[2] In the Civil War, Tracy was a Commissioner for King Charles I and fought against the Parliamentary forces at Cirencester and the Siege of Gloucester in 1643.
[1] Tracy married firstly in 1617 Bridget Lyttelton, daughter of John Lyttelton, of Frankley Court, Worcestershire and his wife Meriel Bromley, daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor.
He married as his second wife Dorothy Cocks, daughter of Thomas Cocks, of Castleditch, Herefordshire and his wife Anne Elton, daughter of Ambrose Elton, of Ledbury, and had further issue, including the senior judge Robert Tracy.