Sir Thomas Thynne, MP

Family and Education b. c.1610, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Thomas Thynne† by 1st w.; bro. of Sir James Thynne. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. matric. 28 June 1620, aged 10; M. Temple 1629, called 1637. m. 6 Sept. 1642, Stuart, da. and h. of Walter Balcanquhall, DD, dean of Durham 1639-45, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 2 da. Kntd. c. 19 Aug. 1642.1

Offices Held

Commr. for assessment, Wilts. Aug. 1660-1, Surr. 1663-d., Glos. 1665-d., sewers, Bedford level 1662-3.2

Biography Thynne was left £1,000 p.a. by his father. He seems to have taken no part in the Civil War; he was assessed at £4,000 by the committee for the advance of money in 1646, but no proceedings were taken. In 1659 his steward and butler were ordered to be arrested and his house at Richmond searched for royalist suspects. Unlike his brother, he was eligible for election to the Convention under the Long Parliament ordinance, and took his seat in the House after a double return at Hindon with the regicide Edmund Ludlow had been resolved in his favour on the merits of the election. He was marked as a friend by Lord Wharton, but left no trace on the records of Parliament, apart from securing leave ‘to go into the country’ on 7 Aug. 1660, and he did not stand again. Thynne probably died soon after 14 Oct. 1669, when he dictated a codicil to his will but was unable to sign it.3

Ref Volumes: 1660-1690 Authors: M. W. Helms / John. P. Ferris Notes 1. Durham Cathedral Reg. (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxiii), 37; Richmond Par. Reg. (Surr. Par. Reg. Soc. i), 45, 46, 50, 208, 209, 211, 213. 2. S. Wells, Drainage of the Bedford Level, i. 350. 3. PC2/55/619-20; Cal. Comm. Adv. Money, 615; CSP Dom. 1659-60, p. 564; PCC 52 Penn

Sir Thomas Thynne (c 1610 - 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

Thynne was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Thynne and his first wife Maria Tuchet, daughter of Lord Audley. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 28 June 1620, aged 10. He entered Middle Temple in 1629 and was called to the bar in 1637. He was knighted on 19 August 1642.

In 1660, Thynne was elected Member of Parliament for Hindon in the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Wiltshire from August 1660, for Surrey from 1663 and for Gloucestershire from 1665.

Thynne lived at Richmond, Surrey. He died at the age of 59.

Thynne married Stuart Balcanquhall, daughter of Walter Balcanquhall, DD, dean of Durham on 6 September 1642. They had three sons and two daughters. He was succeeded by his son Thomas. He was the brother of Sir James Thynne from whom his son Thomas inherited Longleat.