Thomas Whitgrave

Thomas Whitgrave (fl. 1650s) was the member of parliament for Staffordshire for the First, Second and Third Protectorate parliaments who was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1658. ^[1][2] Although he was considered as a potential recipient Knight of the Royal Oak, the knighthood conferred by the Lord Protector was not recognised after the Restoration.^[3]

Notes

1. Noble 1784, p. 541.
2. Shaw 1906, p. 224.
3. R.R. 1859, p. 383.

References

• Noble, Mark (1784), Memoirs of several persons and families who by females are allied to, or descended from the protectorate-house of Cromwell: chiefly collected from original papers and records, to which is added a catalogue of such persons who were raised to honors or great employments by the Cromwells, with the lives of many of them, 2 (3rd ed.), London: Pearson and Rollason, sold by R. Baldwin, p. 541
• R.R. (5 November 1859), "Titles conferred by Oliver Cromwell", Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, pp. 382–383
• Shaw, William Arthur (1906), The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, 2, London: Sherratt and Hughes