Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman (1596 – 25 January 1665), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1660.

Wenman was the only son of Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman, by Agnes eldest surviving daughter of Sir George Fermor, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. He took part in the settlement of Ireland and was granted lands in Garrycastle in the King's County.[1] He also sat as Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1621 to 1622 and 1624 to 1625 and for Oxfordshire in 1626, from November 1640 to 1648 and in 1660.[2] He was appointed by the Long Parliament to be one of the commissioners to carry the propositions for peace to Charles at Oxford in 1643 and was also a commissioner for the Treaty of Uxbridge in 1645 and the Treaty of Newport in 1648. In 1645 he was granted £4 a week by Parliament for damages caused by the King's forces at his Oxfordshire estate.[1]

Lord Wenman married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Hampden. He died without surviving male issue in January 1665[2] and was succeeded by his younger brother, Philip.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wenman,_2nd_Viscount_Wenman

Offices Held

J.p. Oxon. 1630-48, Bucks. and Oxon. 1660-d.;10 commr. sewers, Berks. and Oxon. 1634,11 oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1635-39, 1641-48, 1660-d.,12 Bucks, 1640,13 execution of ordinances, Bucks. and Oxon. 1644, assessment, Bucks. and Oxon. 1644, 1647-8, Oxon. 1660-d., Bucks. 1661-3, appeals, Oxf. Univ. 1647, militia, Bucks. and Oxon. 1648, 1660.14

Commr. treaty of Uxbridge 1645,15 exclusion from sacrament 1646,16 scandalous offences 1648,17 treaty of Newport 1648.18

Biography Wenman has to be distinguished from his uncle, who lived in Ireland and was certainly dead before 1640.19 Though seated in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, he was returned to four of the five parliaments of the 1620s for the Northamptonshire borough of Brackley, where his family had acquired the Tithe House.20 In the remaining Parliament, that of 1626, he served as knight of the shire for Oxfordshire in place of his father.

Despite the regularity with which he secured election, he left little trace in the records of Parliament. On 1 May 1621 he urged that the papers of the Catholic lawyer Edward Floyd should be examined after he had been whipped, trusting to ‘find cause to hang him’.21 One week later, in a committee of the whole House, he may have been the ‘Sir Thomas Heyman’ who urged the recall of the Speaker so that Sir Charles Morrison* and Clement Coke* might give evidence at the bar about their unseemly public quarrel.22 He made no impression on the records of either the 1624 or 1625 assemblies, and in 1626 was named to only one committee, to consider a bill for sheriffs’ accounts (14 March).23 In the third Caroline Parliament the ‘Sir Edward Wenman’ whose servant was granted privilege on 20 Feb. 1629 was either Wenman or his kinsman Sir Francis Wenman*.24

Wenman succeeded his father shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, during which he was a moderate parliamentarian and a supporter of peace.25 Having made his will on 6 Jan. 1665, he died three weeks later and was buried in the family vault at Twyford.26

Ref Volumes: 1604-1629 Authors: Alan Davidson / Rosemary Sgroi Notes 1. Secluded at Pride’s Purge, 6 Dec. 1648; readmitted 21 Feb. 1660. 2. Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 179. 3. Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss. 4. Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 56, 86. 5. CP, xii. pt. 2, p. 491. 6. Vis. Oxon. 179. 7. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 266. 8. C142/594/49. 9. Browne Willis, Buckingham, 336. 10. C231/5, p. 38; SP16/405, f. 53v; C220/9/4; C193/12/3. 11. C181/4, f. 179. 12. C181/5, ff. 33, 47v, 62, 74v, 94v, 106, 125v, 140v, 161, 190v, 200v, 218v. 13. Ibid. f. 176v. 14. A. and O. i. 455, 456, 541, 542, 612, 927, 961, 972, 1078, 1090, 1234, 1241; ii. 1427, 1440; SR, v. 217, 455, 465. 15. A. and O. i. 609. 16. Ibid. i. 853. 17. Ibid. i. 1209. 18. LJ, x. 486b; HMC Portland, i. 500. 19. CPR Ire. Chas. I, 330, 393; Browne Willis, 329. 20. Baker, Northants. i. 574. 21. CD 1621, iii. 125; CJ, i. 601b. 22. CD 1621, iii. 202 23. Procs. 1626, ii. 281. 24. CJ, i. 931b. 25. M.F. Keeler, Long Parl. 383. 26. PROB 11/316, ff. 147-148v; VCH Bucks. iv. 259.

Thomas Wenman

• BIRTH 1596
• DEATH 25 Jan 1665 (aged 68–69)
• BURIAL Assumption of BVM Churchyard, Twyford, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England
• MEMORIAL ID 185952850 Photos by Todd Whitesides & Vonderene

Parents
Richard Wenman 1573–1640
Agnes Fermor Wenman unknown–1617

Spouse
Margaret Hampden Wenman 1598–1658

Siblings
Penelope Wenman Dinham unknown–1672
Dorothy Wenman unknown–1624
Philip Wenman 1610–1686

Children
Elizabeth Wenman Verney unknown–1649
Penelope Wenman Cave unknown–1666
Frances Wenman Samwell unknown–1677
Mary Wenman Wenman 1633–1657

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