- Has 3 children: daughter, Samantha Grant Markle (b. November 24, 1964) & son, Thomas Markle Jr. (b. September 17, 1966) with 1st ex-wife, Roslyn Loveless and daughter, Meghan Markle (b. August 4, 1981) with 2nd ex-wife, Doria Ragland.
- Highlight of his career was winning a Chicago Emmy on 15 June 1975 for work on the public TV station Channel 11 WTTW.
- Thomas moved from Pennsylvania to Chicago, becoming a television lighting designer.
- Father-in-law of Prince Harry.
- Son of Gordon Arnold Markle (1918-1982) and Doris May Rita Sanders (1920-2011).
- He filed for bankruptcy in 2016, with debts of $30,000, much less than the figure shown for his second wife when she filed for bankruptcy several years earlier, but he was said to have tax debts of over $50,000.
- Brother of Mick Markle (1939) and Frederick Markle (1942).
- Former father-in-law of Trevor Engelson.
- He has German, English, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and remote French, ancestry. He has Colonial American (largely English) roots going back to the 1600s, particularly in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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