Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet

Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet (1578 – 1631) was an English peer.

The son of Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet, he represented Peterborough in 1601 and Kent from 1624 to 1625 as Member of Parliament. Tufton was knighted by James I on 13 April 1603, and was appointed a justice of the peace in Kent and then a deputy lieutenant in 1623. He succeeded his father in the baronetage in 1625, was created Baron Tufton, of Tufton, on 1 November 1626, and Earl of the Isle of Thanet on 5 August 1628.^[1]

He owned Bodiam Castle, having purchased it in 1623. He was succeeded in the earldom by John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, his son by his marriage to Lady Frances Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.

References

1. ^ Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 3. London: Longmans, Green. p. 521. http://books.google.com/books?id=DO8IAAAAIAAJ. 

Peerage of England
New creation	Earl of Thanet 1628–1631	Succeeded by John Tufton
	Baron Tufton 1626–1631
Baronetage of England
Preceded by John Tufton	Baronet (of Hothfield) 1625–1631	Succeeded by John Tufton

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