Thomas Meyrick

Sir Thomas Charlton Meyrick, 1st Baronet KCB (14 March 1837 – 30 July 1921), known as Thomas Charlton until 1858, was a Welsh Conservative member of parliament.

Biography

Born Thomas Charlton, he was the son of St John Chiverton Charlton.^[1][2] He assumed by Royal licence the surname of Meyrick (which was that of his maternal grandfather Thomas Meyrick) in lieu of his patronymic in 1858.^[2][3] He was returned to Parliament for Pembroke in 1868, a seat he held until 1874.^[2] In 1880 he was created a Baronet, of Bush House in the Parish of St Mary in the County of Pembroke and of Apley Castle in the parish of Wellington in the County of Salop.^[4]

Mayrick served in the army, and became a lieutenant-colonel. After he had retired from the regular army, he was on 19 March 1902 appointed Honorary colonel of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry).^[5]

Meyrick was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1898,^[6] and was promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1910.^[7]

Family

Meyrick married Mary Rhoda (died 1924^[8]), daughter of Richard Frederick Hill, in 1860. He died in July 1921, aged 84, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Frederick, himself a major in the army who commanded the first regiment of the Imperial Yeomanry, formed in 1900.^[9][2]