Sir Thomas Lyster of Rowton Castle (1612–1655), supported King Charles I during the English Civil War.
[1] In 1642 he signed a joint engagement with other gentlemen of the county to help raise a regiment of dragoons.
[2] He was given a high command in the garrison established in Shrewsbury, and on the fall of the town he was taken prisoner,[1][3] but his wife may have gallantly held Rowton Castle for nearly a fortnight against all the efforts of the parliamentary officer, Colonel Thomas Mytton and did not surrender until she had obtained good terms from Mytton .
He was buried at the Old St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury,[5] on 17 March, and was succeeded by his son Richard.
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