Other Tom Ligons
Other Tom Ligons
There is a tendency in the Ligon family to name the males Tom or Bill. This goes back at
least a thousand years, according to the family geneology. The first Ligon in America was a
Tom, Colonel Thomas Lygon, around 1641. He was the second son of the holder of the family
estate, Madresfield Court. You have probably never heard of the place, but you may know
it by its fictional name, Brideshead (in Brideshead Revisited).
Tradition goes that the first son gets the estate (no doubt a Bill in this case) and the second
son gets the boot, probably a military career. So Tom set off for the Virginia Colony, where he made
his mark. Um, make that marker. He got into
a skirmish with a group of indians attacking a cabin once ... used a huge gun now in a Richmond museum,
and is said to have killed three with his first shot, two more with the second, and another pair with
the third shot. About this time the indians remembered they had an appointment elsewhere. I actually
met him once here, and he's in
pretty good shape (photo) for an old guy.
So, here are a few of the wild seeds of Colonel Tom.
Tom Ligon "handsome, chameleon character actor and sometimes lead" in movies, TV, and Broadway.
Tom Ligon, of ARC Science Simulations in Colorado (Both of us happen to have wives named Linda. His Linda is a noted magazine publisher.)
Dr. Tom Ligon, of Microsoft
If you are a Tom Ligon, and you feel robbed because I've got the website you wanted, drop me
a line and I'll stick your link in here, for free! I'm not greedy.
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