Thomas Mackworth, MP

From Wikipedia (March 2014):

Thomas Mackworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.

Mackworth was the son of Humphrey Mackworth of Betton Grange. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1642, He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 6 February 1645 and was awarded BA at Cambridge in 1646.[1]

In 1656, Mackworth was elected Member of Parliament for Shropshire for the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Shropshire in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2]

Mackworth married Anne Bulkeley, daughter of Richard Bulkeley of Shropshire.[1] He was the father of Humphrey Mackworth MP and industrialist

• Shropshire County records: A full list and partial abstract of the contents of the Quarter Session rolls by Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Shropshire); Lee, Lancelot John, ed; Venables, Rowland George, ed Published 1900 [v. 1] 1696-1880, edited by L. J. Lee.--[v. 2] 1801-1820 (January), edited by L. J. Lee and R. G. Venables. Page 31. He was Sheriff in 1669, and dying in 1696 was buried in St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury