Thomas Walsingham (MP)

For other MPs of this name, see Thomas Walsingham (disambiguation).

Sir Thomas Walsingham (died 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1640. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.

Life

Walsingham was the son of Sir Thomas Walsingham and his wife Katherine Gunter, daughter of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surrey, and Brecknock in Wales. He was knighted at Royston on 26 November 1613.[1] In 1614 he was elected Member of Parliament for Poole. He was elected MP for Rochester in 1621 and again in 1628 and held the seat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[2] He was made vice-admiral of Kent in 1627.

In April 1640, Walsingham was re-elected MP for Rochester for the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament when he sat until 1653, surviving Pride's Purge.[2] He sold the family property of Scadbury in around 1655.

Walsingham died in 1669 and was buried at Chislehurst on 10 April 1669.

Family

Walsingham married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Manwood, daughter of Sir Peter Manwood.

References

  1. ↑ Knights of England
  2. 1 2 Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Walsingham, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Edwin Sandys
Sir Thomas Walsingham		 Member of Parliament for Rochester
1621-1622
With: Henry Clerke		 Succeeded by
Sir Maximilion Dalyson
Sir Thomas Walsingham
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Walsingham
Henry Clerke		 Member of Parliament for Rochester
1628-1629
With: William Brooke, 12th Baron Cobham		 Succeeded by
Parliament suspended until 1640
Preceded by
Parliament suspended since 1629		 Member of Parliament for Rochester
1640-
With: John Clerke 1640
Richard Lee 1640-		 Succeeded by
Not represented in Barebones Parliament
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