Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766)
- Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766)
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703 – 8 January 1766) was the eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley and inherited the vast Great Witley estate on his father's death in 1733.
His father had dreamed of rebuilding the parish church, close to the family mansion of Witley Court, but died before doing so. This was undertaken by his widow Mary and son, and completed in 1735. The building was designed by James Gibbs. It was transformed in 1747, when Lord Foley bought decorative features of the chapel at Cannons, Lord Chandos' palace at Edgware. He then employed mould-makers to reproduce its plasterwork, making the church one of the finest baroque churches in Britain. [Bill Pardoe, "Witley Court: Witley Court and Church: Life and luxury in a great country house" (Peter Huxtable Designs Limited 1986), 6.]
Unlike his father and two younger brothers, Lord Foley did not sit in the House of Commons. He never married. On his death, his estates devolved on his distant cousin Thomas Foley of Stoke Edith, for whom the title Lord Foley was revived in 1776. The new Lord Foley referred in this will to his predecessor as his "great benefactor".
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