Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt
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Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt (April 4, 1801 – January 6, 1876) was a British Conservative politician.
Born Thomas Henry Sutton Estcourt, he was educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford, Estcourt was elected to Parliament as MP for Marlborough in 1829. The next year, he married the daughter of Admiral Frank Sotheron, and changed his name to Sotheron in 1839 in order to inherit his father-in-law's property. He was elected to parliament again in 1835 as MP for Devizes, switched to North Wiltshire in 1844, and continued in the Commons until 1865. He is a descendant of Sir Thomas Estcourt of Calcot Manor.
Sotheron resumed the name Estcourt in 1855, and entered Lord Derby's second government in 1858 as President of the Poor Law Board. The next year, he became Home Secretary, but the government soon fell, and Sotheron Estcourt retired from public life in 1863 after a paralytic seizure; he died 13 years later at the age of 74.
| Preceded by: Edward Pleydell Bouverie | President of the Poor Law Board 1858–1859 | Succeeded by: Earl of March |
| Preceded by: Spencer Horatio Walpole | Secretary of State for the Home Department 1859 | Succeeded by: Sir George Lewis, Bt. |
