Thomas Walsingham MP (1589 - 1669)

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Biography

Sir Thomas Walsingham was the only son of Sir Thomas Walsingham and Audrey Shelton. He m. (1) settlement 2 Mar. 1616, Elizabeth (bur. 24 Apr. 1632), da. of Sir Peter Manwood* of Hackington, Kent, 1s. 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 1634, Elizabeth (d. 4 Nov. 1676), da. of Sir Richard Bourne of Bobbingworth, Essex, wid. of Nathaniel Master (bur. 4 Apr. 1633) of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London and Highgate, Mdx., merchant, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. d.v.p.

Research Notes

In his father's IPM he is listed as being born in 1600, which would have meant he was 6 on matriculation to University, but was actually born in 1589, for in 1602 his father gave his age as 13 to the Court of Wards.

Sources

• WALSINGHAM, Sir Thomas II (c.1589-1669), of Scadbury, nr. Chislehurst, Kent The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010

• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SHELTON.htm#Alice%20SHELTON5

• The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux by Camden, William, 1551-1623; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Hovenden, Robert, 1830-1908; Harleian Society Page 144: Manwood