Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673–1733)

Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley FRS (8 November 1673 – 22 January 1733), of Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire, was an English landowner, ironmaster and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1694 until 1712, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Foley as one of Harley's Dozen.

He was educated at Sheriffhales academy under John Woodhouse in 1689 and then for some years at Utrecht.

[4] Foley married Mary Strode with whom he fathered seven children, five of them predeceasing their parents.

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