Mortimer George Thoyts


Mortimer George Thoyts was a Victorian High Sheriff of Berkshire and a Captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia.
Mortimer was born 6 November 1804 at Sulhamstead House in Berkshire, the only son of William Thoyts of that place and his wife, Jane, the daughter and co-heiress of the famous city grocer, Abram Newman. of Mount Bures in Suffolk. He inherited the Sulhamstead estate in 1817 and became Captain in the Royal Berkshire Militia on 15 June 1832 and resigned 13 March 1833. In 1839, he was pricked High Sheriff of Berkshire. He was presented by the electors of Berkshire with a fine portrait of himself, painted by J. Horsley, R.A., for the work he had done politically, although he refused to represent the county in Parliament.
He married three times:
M. G. Thoyts died on 18 January 1875 at his home and was buried in St. Michael's Churchyard at Sulhamstead Bannister.