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Sir Thomas Cullum, 1st Baronet

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90: 17: 205: 244: 47:, and Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Smith of Bacton in the same county. As a younger son he was sent in 1607 to London and apprenticed to one John Rayney, a draper, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship was taken by his master into partnership. Cullum by shrewdness and industry amassed a large fortune in his business in 110:
preceding December. An audit had revealed that he had, as excise commissioner, retained a large sum of money in excise arrears, which he was compelled to repay; this he seems to have paid into the exchequer in 1663 to buy his peace. He died at Hawsted on 6 April 1664, in his seventy-eighth year, and was buried there.
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Cullum was rewarded by being created a baronet on 18 June 1660, but he seems to have fallen into disfavour with the ruling powers, as on 17 July 1661 he had a pardon under the great seal for all treasons and rebellions, with all their concomitant enormities, committed by him before the 29th of the
218: 294: 86:, and other aldermen, for having been concerned in some Royalist outbreak in the city. They published a declaration in their defence, which was printed. 284: 289: 248: 63:. Cullum and his wife had two sons and two daughters, and six other children who died in infancy. Mary died in 1637, aged 35, and was buried at 89: 279: 55:. He married in 1623 Mary, daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Crisp, alderman of London, through whom he became related to the Royalist 97:
After 1649 he invested in property in London and Suffolk; in 1656 he retired from business and purchased for £18,000 the estates of
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From 1643 to 1650 Cullum held the office of commissioner of excise. He was alderman of
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Hardwick House, Cullum's residence from 1656, pictured in the 19th century
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Cullum, baptised on 28 April 1587, was the second son of John Cullum of
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from September 1647 to March 1648, with the Lord Mayor,
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Sheriff of London
Hardwick House, Suffolk
Thorndon, Suffolk
Gracechurch Street
Drapers' Company
Sir Nicholas Crisp
Civil War
All Hallows Lombard Street
Cordwainer ward
Sheriff of London
Tower of London
Sir John Gayer

Hawsted and Hardwick
Bury St Edmunds
Restoration



Cust, Lionel Henry
"Cullum, Thomas (1587?-1664)" 
Stephen, Leslie
Dictionary of National Biography



Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/6879

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