Thomas Fanshawe (of Jenkins)
Thomas Fanshawe (1607 – 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642.
Life
Fanshawe was the son of Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins, Barking, Essex. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1620 and matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1622, being awarded MA in 1624. He was called to the bar in 1630 and became a bencher.[1]
In November 1640, Fanshawe was elected MP for Lancaster in the Long Parliament.[2] He was disabled from sitting in September 1642.
Family
Fanshawe married Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney. They had a son, Thomas, Member of Parliament for Essex, and a daughter Alice who married John Fanshawe of Parsloes.[3][4]
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References
- "Fanshawe, Thomas (FNSW622T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- 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.
- Bernard Burke (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 195.
- "Fanshawe, Sir Thomas II (1628–1705), of Jenkins, Barking, Essex, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 30 May 2015.
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| Preceded by Roger Kirkby John Harrison |
Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1640 With: John Harrison |
Succeeded by John Harrison |
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