Around 1592 Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg (age 15) educated Jesus College, Cambridge University.

After 1653. Monument to Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg (age 76) and his wife [his former wife] Barbara Cholmley Viscountess Faunconberg on south wall of Chancel at St Michael's Church, Coxwold, North Yorkshire [Map]. Two kneeling figures in large aedicule with Corinthian columns.

Barbara Cholmley Viscountess Faunconberg: Around 1575 she was born to Henry Cholmley and Margaret Babthorpe. Before 1604 Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg and she were married. They were half fourth cousins. On 28 Feb 1619 Barbara Cholmley Viscountess Faunconberg died. On 31 Jan 1643 Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg was created 1st Viscount Faunconberg. She by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg.

Pepy's Diary. 09 Jan 1665. Thence to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, where I was accosted and most highly complimented by my [his son] Lord Bellasses (age 50)¹, our new governor, beyond my expectation, or measure I could imagine he would have given any man, as if I were the only person of business that he intended to rely on, and desires my correspondence with him. This I was not only surprized at, but am well pleased with, and may make good use of it. Our patent is renewed, and he and my Lord Barkeley (age 63), and [his son-in-law] Sir Thomas Ingram (age 50) put in as commissioners. Here some business happened which may bring me some profit.

Note 1. John Belasyse, second son of Thomas, first Viscount Fauconberg, created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, January 27th, 1644, Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull. He was appointed Governor of Tangier, and Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. He was a Roman Catholic, and therefore was deprived of all his appointments in 1672 by the provisions of the Test Act, but in 1684 James II made him First Commissioner of the Treasury. He died 1689.