Thomas Staunton (Nottinghamshire MP)
Thomas Staunton may refer to: * Thomas Staunton (Nottinghamshire MP), MP for Nottinghamshire 1411 * Thomas Staunton (Ipswich MP), MP for Ipswich 1757–84 See also * Thomas Stanton (other) * Staunton (surname) Staunton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Leonard Staunton, English botanist * Sir George Thomas Staunton, English traveller and orientalist * Henry Staunton (businessman), British businessman * Henry de Staunton, ...

Thomas Staunton (Nottinghamshire MP)
Thomas Staunton may refer to: * Thomas Staunton (Nottinghamshire MP), MP for Nottinghamshire 1411 * Thomas Staunton (Ipswich MP), MP for Ipswich 1757–84 See also * Thomas Stanton (other) * Staunton (surname) Staunton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Leonard Staunton, English botanist * Sir George Thomas Staunton, English traveller and orientalist * Henry Staunton (businessman), British businessman * Henry de Staunton, ...

Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Nottinghamshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as Knights of the Shire. The constituency was split into two two-member divisions, for Parliamentary purposes, by the Reform Act 1832. The county was then represented by the North Nottinghamshire and South Nottinghamshire constituencies. Boundaries The county of Nottinghamshire is located in the East Midlands of England. The county is known to have been represented in Parliament from 1290, although it probably sent knights of the shire to earlier meetings. From 1295 the county and the town of Nottingham each returned two members to parliament. In 1572 East Retford was represented by two members, and in 1672 Newark-upon-Trent also. Under the Reform Act of 1832 the county returned four memb ...
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Thomas Staunton (Ipswich MP)
Thomas Staunton (1706? – 1 October 1784) was an Irish lawyer and a member of both the Irish and British Parliaments. He was the son of John Staunton of Galway, Ireland, who was MP for Galway Borough and held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland), and Bridget Donnellan, daughter of Edmund Donnellan, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin from 1723. He was called to the Irish bar in 1729. He then moved to London to study law at the Inner Temple in 1727 and at Lincoln's Inn in 1740. He was called to the English bar in 1740. He was elected to represent Galway Borough (his father's old constituency) in the Irish Parliament, sitting from 1732 to 1761. He was a Member of the British Parliament for Ipswich from 1757 to 1784 in the yellow interest. He married twice; firstly Jane, the daughter of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard and Mary Randyll (Mary was reputed to be a woman of "scandalous life"), and sister of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington and of Anne Vane, mistress of ...
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Thomas Stanton (other)
Thomas Stanton (1616?–1677) was a trader and an accomplished Indian interpreter and negotiator in the Connecticut Colony, one of the original settlers of Hartford.Society of the Descendants of the Founders of HartforThe Founders of Hartford/ref> He was also one of four founders of Stonington, Connecticut, along with William Chesebrough, Thomas Miner, and Walter Palmer. He first appears in the historical record as an interpreter for John Winthrop, Jr. in 1636. He fought in the Pequot War, nearly losing his life in the Fairfield Swamp Fight in 1637. In 1638, he was a delegate at the Treaty of Hartford which ended that war. In 1643, the United Colonies of New England appointed him as Indian Interpreter. Following the war, Stanton returned to Hartford where he married and became a successful trader. In 1649, he settled a tract of land alongside the Pawcatuck River in present-day Stonington. In 1649 or 1650, he was given permission to establish a trading post on the rive ...
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