Career
He was also appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1533. He was one of the King"s sergeants-at-arms, the forerunners of the Yeomen of the Guard ("Beefeaters"). Debrett"s Knightage says that he was one of those made a "Knight of the Bath" as part of the coronation ceremonies of Anne Boleyn.
Sir Thomas married Anne Rivers, daughter of John Rivers of Ipswich, and fathered six children: Arthur, Thomas, Leonard, Anthony, John, and an unnamed daughter.
Leonard and John did not survive infancy. Sir Thomas later married a woman named Christian, but produced no more children.
Sir Thomas is interred in Saint Stephen"s Church in Ipswich, which no longer functions as a church. Sir Thomas" most famous name-bearing descendant is Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Doctor Rush is Sir Thomas" descendant through the latter"s eponymous son.
