Thomas Walsingham (died 1669)
Sir Thomas Walsingham (c. 1589 - April 1669) was an English politician who sat in the
Life
Walsingham was the son of
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, who died giving birth to a daughter in January 1616.[3]
References
- ^ Knights of England
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1849), p. 388.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Walsingham, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.