Thomas Street (judge), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Street (judge)

English judge and politician

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1625

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1696

Profession: judge, politician

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Baron Sir Thomas Street, MP, KB, JP (1625 – 8 March 1696) was an English judge and politician who was a Baron of the Exchequer and member of the last King's Bench before the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Sir Thomas was the only one of ten presiding judges to rule against King James II's attempt to contravene the Test Act in 1687.
He sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.
He became Mayor of Worcester in 1667, as his father George Streete, MP had been before him.
He was then made Chief Justice for Brecknock, Glamorgan and Radnor in 1677, serving through to 1681, before being made Baron of the Exchequer in April 1681.