Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron Coventry

In 1628 he was elected MP for Worcestershire and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

He was joint Commissioner of Array in Worcestershire in 1642, and signed the Engagement with the King at York.

[dubious – discuss] He submitted to Parliament in October 1642, and in May 1643 was given permission to go abroad on health grounds.

On 11 April 1645 all his goods and chattels in his house at Westminster were to be seized, inventoried and sold in order to pay off the fine of £1,500.

[1] Coventry died from gangrene in his toes at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 27 October 1661, at the age of about 54.