Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe

Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe (24 July 1755 – 17 November 1800) was an English soldier, Member of Parliament and Irish peer.

He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, 3rd Baronet (1728–1806) of Bunny Hall, Nottinghamshire and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.

In 1787 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as "a Gentleman well versed in various branches of Science" [1] In 1795 he was made an Irish peer as Baron Rancliffe.

[4] Parkyns married Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of Sir William James, MP (who died at the wedding) and had nine children.

His daughter Elizabeth Anne Parkyns married Sir Richard Levinge and threy were parents to Reginald Thomas John Levinge.