Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Thomas Peyton
MP, JP
Portrait of Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet (by John Hoskins).jpg
Member of Parliament
for Kent
In office
May 1661 January 1679

Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, 18 August 1613 to 11 February 1684, was a member of the landed gentry from Knowlton Court in Kent. He supported the Royalists in the War of the Three Kingdoms, and took part in a number of conspiracies to restore Charles II of England during the 1649 to 1660 Commonwealth period.

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After the Stuart Restoration in May 1660, Peyton was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and elected Member of Parliament for Kent. Despite receiving a number of lucrative government positions, he was in dire financial difficulties when he died in February 1684, leaving four daughters, and his lands were sold.

Shortly before fleeing into exile in 1660 to escape prosecution as a regicide, his neighbour John Dixwell sold Peyton part of his Broome Park estate. In return, one of Peyton's daughters married his nephew Basill Dixwell, which appears to have been a successful attempt to protect his property from confiscation. [1]

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Knowlton Court, Kent Knowlton Court-geograph.org.uk-2570816.jpg
Knowlton Court, Kent

Peyton was the son of Sir Samuel Peyton, 1st Baronet, of Knowlton, and his wife Mary Aston, daughter of Sir Roger Aston. He inherited the baronetcy and Knowlton Court on the death of his father in 1623. [2]

In November 1640, Peyton was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich in the Long Parliament. [3] He was disabled from sitting in 1644 for supporting the king and was subsequently a member of The Action Party, a group of radicals dedicated to bringing down the Protectorate government. [4] At some point around 1655, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London; on 7th August that year, Oliver Cromwell ordered John Barkstead, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, to allow Sir Thomas 'a prisoner in the Tower' leave 'for thirty-six days to take the waters at Tunbridge Wells'. (Beloe Papers catalogue, MS3273, Lambeth Palace Library, accessed via National Archives website, 4 May 2021.)

After the Restoration, Peyton was elected MP for Kent from 1661 to 1679 in the Cavalier Parliament. [5]

Peyton died aged 70 in financial difficulty.

Peyton had married three times; firstly a daughter of Sir Peter Osborne, secondly Cecilia Swan, widow of Sir William Swan, and thirdly Jane Monins, daughter of Sir William Monins. [2] He left four daughters, who sold Knowlton Court to Admiral Sir John Narborough.

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References

  1. Handley 2002.
  2. 1 2 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  3. 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.
  4. British Civil Wars - The Action Party
  5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)

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Parliament of England
Parliament suspended since 1629 Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1640–1644
With: Sir Edward Partridge
Succeeded by
Peyton disabled from sitting - seat vacant
Sir Edward Partridge
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Kent
1661–1679
With: Sir John Tufton
Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Samuel Peyton
Baronet
(of Knowlton)
1623–1684
Extinct