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{{Short description|English peer and courtier}}
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'''Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret''' (1698 – 8 July 1753) was an English peer and courtier.
He was the only son of [[William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster]] by his third wife Lady Sophia Osborne. He succeeded to his father's barony on his death in 1711 as '''2nd Baron Leominster'''. The Earldom of Pomfret was created for him on 27 December 1721, named after [[Pontefract]] in Yorkshire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fermor,_William_(d.1711)_(DNB00)|title = Fermor, William (D.1711)|volume = 18}}</ref>
In September 1727 he was appointed [[List of Masters of the Horse to British royal consorts|master of the horse]] to [[Caroline of Ansbach|Caroline]], queen consort to the newly acceded [[George II of Great Britain|George II]]—Fermor's wife was also made one of the ladies of Caroline's bedchamber. Caroline died in November 1737 and in September 1738 Thomas and his wife took a three-year tour in France and Italy, visiting Florence, Bologna, Venice, Augsburg, Frankfurt and Brussels.
==Marriage and issue==
[[File:Easton Neston east side 21 July 1985.jpg|thumb|[[Easton Neston house|Easton Neston House]] (seat of Earls of Pomfret)]]
On 14 July 1720 he married [[Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys]], the only surviving child of [[John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys]] of Wem and granddaughter of [[George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fermor,_Henrietta_Louisa_(DNB00)|title = Fermor, Henrietta Louisa|volume = 18}}</ref> They had four sons and six daughters, including:
*[[George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret]] (1722–1785), who succeeded his father
*[[Lady Charlotte Finch|Lady Charlotte Fermor]] (1725–1813), wife of Hon. [[William Finch (diplomat)|William Finch]], later governess to the children of [[George III]]
*Lady Sophia Frances Fermor (died 1745), wife of [[John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville]]
*[[Lady Juliana Fermor Penn|Lady Juliana Fermor]] (1729-1801), later wife of [[Thomas Penn]]
*Lady Anne Fermor (1733-1769), wife of [[Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne]]
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