Career
Thomas Coventry from 1640 to 1687 and as the Lord Coventry from 1687 to 1697, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1687 when he succeeded to the peerage. He was elected Member of Parliament for Camelford in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. In 1681 he was elected Member of Parliament for Warwick and was re-elected in 1685.
In 1697 he was made Viscount Deerhurst, of the hundred of Deerhurst in the County of Gloucester, and Earl of Coventry.
Lord Coventry married firstly Winifred, daughter of Pierce Edgcumbe, in circa 1660. She died in 1694. Lady Coventry later remarried and died in 1724.