Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer (21 July 1695 – 19 October 1768) was an English Member of Parliament, who was created Baron Archer in 1747. His arms are blazoned: Azure three arrows or.
He was the son and heir of Andrew Archer of Umberslade Hall in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire and his wife Elizabeth Dashwood. He married Catherine Tipping, daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet.
He served as Member of Parliament of Warwick from 1735 to 1741 and then for the rotten borough of Bramber in Sussex from 1741 until 1747, when he was raised to the peerage. He was also Custos Rotulorum of Flintshire from 1750 to 1753.
He was succeeded by his son Andrew Archer, 2nd Baron Archer, on whose death in 1778 the title became extinct.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andrew Archer of Umberslade | | | | | | | | | Sir Simon Archer of Umberslade | | | | | | | | | | | | | Margaret Raleigh or Rawley | | | | | | | | | Colonel Thomas Archer of Umberslade | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth | | | | | | | | | Anne Ferrers | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dorothy Puckering | | | | | | | | | Andrew Archer of Umberslade | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Richard Leigh of London | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anne Leigh | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Samuel Dashwood of Rowdon | | | | | | | | | Francis Dashwood of Vellow Wood | | | | | | | | | | | | | Elizabeth Sweeting | | | | | | | | | Sir Samuel Dashwood | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alice Sleigh | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Elizabeth Dashwood | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | John Smith of Tedworth | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anne Smith | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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