Thomas Wylde was an English politician and administrator.
Background
He was the eldest son of Robert Wylde (c 1622 – 1689) of The Commandery and his wife born Elizabeth Dennis. He first married in 1696 Katherine daughter of Sir Baynham Throckmorton and Katherine Edgecumbe by whom he was father of Robert Wylde (died 1752) a director of the South Sea Company, and secondly in 1720 Anne widow of Charles Dowdeswell, Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury 1713–1714, and daughter of Robert Tracy of Coscomb Gloucestershire, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
Career
His residence was The Commandery, Worcester. "This Thomas represented the city of Worcester in Parliament, and very greatly impaired his fortune by contested elections. (Mr Ralph B Wylde-Browne succeeded to this estate on the death of his half-brother, Thomas Rous Wylde)
Charles, the second son of Robert Wylde, married a Mission Fewtrell, and his present representative is the Review
Charles Edmund Fewtrell-Wylde, son of the Review
Robert Wylde, vicar of Claverdon, company
Membership
1st Parliament of Great Britain. 2nd Parliament of Great Britain. 3rd Parliament of Great Britain.
4th Parliament of Great Britain.
6th Parliament of Great Britain. 5th Parliament of Great Britain]
He was Member of Parliament for Worcester in nine parliaments from 1701 to 1727 and a commissioner of the excise for Ireland from 1727 to 1737 being unable to meet the expense of re-election to parliament.