Thomas Lister (19 January 1723 – 29 November 1761), of Gisburne Park, Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Tory politician who represented Clitheroe in the House of Commons from 1745 until his death in 1761.
[1] Lister was the eldest son of Thomas Lister of Gisburne Park and Catherine Assheton, daughter and coheiress of Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Whalley Abbey.
He was educated at Westminster School beginning in 1736 and entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1742.
[2] For most of the 18th century, the Listers and the Curzons of Gopsall Hall jointly controlled the borough of Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
[1] His father represented Clitheroe in six parliaments, from 1713 until his death in 1745, at which point Thomas succeeded him.