Sir Thomas Foote, 1st Baronet (1592 – 12 October 1687) was a wealthy grocer

Grocer

A grocer is a bulk seller of food. Beginning as early as the 14th century, a grocer was a dealer in comestible dry goods such as spices, pepper, sugar, and cocoa, tea and coffee...

 of London

London

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In 1646 he was made a Sheriff of London and in 1649 elected Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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. He represented London in the First

First Protectorate Parliament

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 and Second Protectorate Parliament

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He had four daughters:

• Priscilla Foote, married Sir Francis Rolle
  Francis Rolle
  Francis Rolle was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1685.Rolle was the only son of Henry Rolle of Shapwick who was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench and his wife Margaret Foote, daughter of Sir Henry Foote, merchant of London...
  
   (d. 1686) on 23 January 1654
• Mary Foote, married Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet
  Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet
  Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet was an English politicianThe eldest son of Sir Richard Onslow, an important Parliamentarian from Surrey, Arthur also took an active role in political affairs during the English Civil War. He represented Bramber in the Long Parliament, and Surrey in the First, Second,...
  
   as his second wife
• Sarah Foote, married first Sir John Lewis, 1st Baronet (d. 1671) and second Denzil Onslow
  Denzil Onslow (of Pyrford)
  Denzil Onslow was a British Whig politician. Through advantageous marriages, he obtained a country estate and became prominent in Surrey politics of the Hanoverian era, although his nephew Arthur Onslow, as Speaker, judged that Denzil knew "no more of the business [of the House of Commons] than...
  
   (d. 1721) (younger brother of Arthur)
• Elizabeth Foote, married Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet (1607–1693) as his second wife

Foote was created a baronet, of London, on 21 November 1660. While he left no sons to succeed him, his son-in-law, Arthur Onslow

Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet was an English politicianThe eldest son of Sir Richard Onslow, an important Parliamentarian from Surrey, Arthur also took an active role in political affairs during the English Civil War. He represented Bramber in the Long Parliament, and Surrey in the First, Second,...

, obtained a reversion to Foote's baronetcy in 1674, and so became a baronet upon Foote's death in 1687 (with precedency of 1660).