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BARON

See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS

See also:

• VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895)

VAUX VAUX OF HARROWDEN (1510-1556)  , English poet, eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux, was born in 1510 . In 1527 he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on his embassy to France; he attended Henry VIII. to Calais and Boulogne in 1532; in 1531 he took his seat in the House of Lords, and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn . He was captain of the Isle of Jersey until 1536 . He married Elizabeth Cheney, and died in October 1556 . Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are at Windsor, and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux is at Hampton Court . Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany, 1557) . They are " The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the Dittye . . . representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes . Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1J76) are signed by him . These are reprinted in Dr A . B . Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (vol. iv., 1872) .