Background
Thomas Foote was a son of John Foot and Margaret (née Brooke) of London and grandson of John Foot of Royston.
Thomas Foote was a son of John Foot and Margaret (née Brooke) of London and grandson of John Foot of Royston.
He was Lord Mayor of London in 1649. During the Protectorate he knighted by the Lord Protector (Cromwell) Oliver Cromwell in 1657, and after the Restoration (England) he was made a baronet by Charles World War II In 1646 Foote was made a Sheriff of London and in 1649 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He represented London in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments, and was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 5 December 1657 (this honour passed into oblivion at the restoration of the monarchy in May 1660).
Foote died 12 October 1687, in his 89th year and was buried in All Saints Church, West Ham, (then in Essex).
On 16 December 1625 Foote married Elizabeth Boddicot, widow of Augustine Boddicot. He had four daughters:
Priscilla Foote, married Sir Francis Rolle (d 1686) on 23 January 1654.
They had a number of children. Sarah Foote, married first Sir John Lewis, 1st Baronet (d 1671) and second Denzil Onslow (d 1721) (younger brother of Arthur).