(d.1784) of Brampton, Yorks, e. s. of Sir Thomas Tancred; suc. fa. 1759 as 5th Bt.; G.Inn 1772, called 1775; m. 1776 Penelope Assheton Smith.
1766 - 9 Venice (21 Oct. 1766), Turin (by 1 Jan. 1767 - ), Venice (3 May 1768), Turin ( - Sep.), Parma (22 Sep.), Florence (Oct.), Naples (by 22 Nov. 1768) [Corsica, Apr. 1769] Florence (by 6 May 1769), Leghorn, Venice (12 May).
A Yorkshire Catholic, Tancred attended the Academy at Turin for two years in 1767 - 8. He came to Venice in October 1766,1 and was in Turin by the following January.2 He was presumably the 'Tomaso Tancred' who arrived at Venice on 3 May 1768,3 but he appears to have continued at the Academy in Turin until September 1768, when he travelled south, through Parma4 and Florence5 in September and October, to reach Naples by November.6 In April 1769 he visited General Paoli in Corsica with the 10th Earl of Pembroke,7 and then travelled with Pembroke from Florence to Venice in May.8 Father Thorpe was later to observe that Tancred's behaviour in Rome had not promised much good.9
1. ASV is 758. 2. Grimston letters MSS (1 Jan. 1767). 3. ASV is 759. 4. Townley MSS (jnl., 22 Sep. 1768). 5. SP 105/319, f.239 (Potter, 8 Oct. 1768). Garrick Priv.Corr., 1:317. 6. SP 105/319, f.276 (Hamilton, 22 Nov. 1768). 7. Wal.Corr., 23:138n12. Thorpe letters MSS (15 Apr. 1769*). 8. Gazz. Tosc. (6 May 1769). 9. Thorpe letters MSS (8 Mar. 1775).