Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford)

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Thomas Wentworth (c. 1568 – by September 1627[a]) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1604 and 1626. He was a vocal if imprudent defender of the rights of the House of Commons.

Wentworth was the third son of

called to the bar in 1594.[2]

Wentworth was elected

Lent Reader of his Inn in 1612.[2]

In 1614 Wentworth was re-elected MP for Oxford and he spoke in Parliament against the imposition of illegal taxes, in which he argued that the Spanish loss of the Netherlands and the recent assassination of Henry IV of France were the "just reward" for such impositions; for this inflammatory speech he was imprisoned after the dissolution of Parliament, chiefly to appease the French ambassador.[2]

Wentworth was re-elected MP for Oxford in 1621 and in that parliament he opposed the proposed marriage of the

King angrily wrote to the Speaker that the Commons should not interfere with such matters of state, he boldly stated that he "never yet read of anything that was not fit for the consideration of a parliament". In 1624 he was re-elected MP for Oxford and in that parliament he was a strong advocate of declaring war on Spain. He was re-elected MP for Oxford in 1625 and 1626. He was dead by September 1627, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas Wentworth, who sat for Oxford in 1628.[1]

Wentworth married Dorothy Keble, daughter of Thomas Keble of Newbottle in Northamptonshire, and they had six sons and at least three daughters.[1]

Notes

  1. History of Parliament records this is the result of confusion with his son, also named Thomas Wentworth.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Wentworth, Thomas I (c.1568-1627), of Lincoln's Inn and Henley, Oxon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Wentworth, Thomas (1568?-1628)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. ^ McNeill, Ronald John (1911). "Wentworth s.v." . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 521.
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