Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet

Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet (c. 1672 – 2 April 1704) of Pakenham Hall in Pakenham, Suffolk, was an English baronet and landowner^[2] who served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1696.^[3]

Arms of Spring: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mascles gules

Hatchment in Packenham Church of Thomas Discipline of Bury St Edmunds, who married Merolina Spring (1695–1761), heiress of Pakenham, a daughter of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet and one of the two sisters and co-heiresses of Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet. Arms: Discipline with inescutcheon of Spring^[1]

Career

Spring was the eldest son of Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet and Sarah Cordell, daughter of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet of Melford Hall, Suffolk.^[4][5] He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and inherited his father's title and estate upon his death in 1684.^[6]

Marriage and issue

On 23 May 1691, he married Hon. Merolina Jermyn, a daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn and Mary Merry, and co-heiress of Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover.^[7] They had three sons and six daughters:^[8]

• Thomas Spring (died 1694)
• Merolina Spring (died 1694)
• Merolina Spring (1695–1761), married Thomas Discipline of Bury St Edmunds.^[9] She inherited the manor of Packenham,^[10] in the church of which survives the funeral hatchment of Thomas Discipline, showing his arms with inescutcheon of Spring.
• Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736), died unmarried. He bequeathed his estates to his two surviving sisters, Merolina and Mary,^[11] but was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740).^[12]
• Mary Spring (1698–1765), married Revd. John Symonds and was the mother of John Symonds and Thomas Symonds and grandmother of Admiral Sir William Symonds^[13]
• Penelope Spring (1700–1707)
• Jermyn Spring (died aged 17)
• Henrietta Maria Spring (died January 1733), died unmarried
• Delariviera Spring (died 1 February 1733), died unmarried

Death and succession

Sir Thomas Spring was buried on 6 April 1704 in Pakenham parish church.^[14] He was succeeded in his title by his only surviving son, Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736),^[15] who died unmarried, when the baronetcy, but not his estates, passed to his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740).