Spouse(s) Frances Vaughan Mother Lady Katherine Clinton | Name Thomas 3rd | |
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Father William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh Parents William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh, Lady Katherine Clinton Cousins John Croftes, Alice Croftes, Margaret Croftes Grandparents Elizabeth Blount, Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh, Agnes Tyrwhitt Uncles Sir Edward Burgh, Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln Aunts Anne Clinton, Elizabeth Clinton, Agnes Burgh, Anne Burgh | ||
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KG (c. 1558–14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII. He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.
Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh [E., 1529] on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593. In 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.
Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Pickering, by whom he had a son and four daughters:
Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.
On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).