Thomas Fanshawe (of Jenkins)

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Thomas Fanshawe (1607 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642.

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Life

Fanshawe was the son of Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins, Barking, Essex. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1620 and matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1622, being awarded MA in 1624. He was called to the bar in 1630 and became a bencher. [1]

Sir Thomas Fanshawe KB was an English government official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1629.

Inner Temple one of the four Inns of Court in London, England

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In November 1640, Fanshawe was elected MP for Lancaster in the Long Parliament. [2] He was disabled from sitting in September 1642.

Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom (1885-1997)

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Long Parliament English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660

The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640, and which in turn had followed an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640. He intended it to pass financial bills, a step made necessary by the costs of the Bishops' Wars in Scotland. The Long Parliament received its name from the fact that, by Act of Parliament, it stipulated it could be dissolved only with agreement of the members; and, those members did not agree to its dissolution until 16 March 1660, after the English Civil War and near the close of the Interregnum.

Family

Fanshawe married Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney. They had a son, Thomas, Member of Parliament for Essex, and a daughter Alice who married John Fanshawe of Parsloes. [3] [4]

Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705) English politician.

Sir Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705) was an English politician.

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Parliament of England
Preceded by
Roger Kirkby
John Harrison
Member of Parliament for Lancaster
1640
With: John Harrison
Succeeded by
John Harrison