Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet (c.1583 – 23 September 1658) was an English politician who sat in the

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variously between 1621 and 1640. Hatton was the son of John Hatton of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire and his wife Jane Shute, daughter of

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, and justice of the Court of Common Pleas. William Betham
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/ref> Sir Robert Hatton, the politician and landowner, was his brother. Hatton was elected Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle from 1621 to 1622 and for Malmesbury from 1624 to 1625. In 1628 Hatton was elected MP for Stamford until 1629 when

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decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640, he was re-elected for Stamford in the

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He was created a baronet, of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, by King Charles I on 5 July 1641. Hatton died at the age of 75. Hatton married Mary Alington, daughter of Sir Giles Alington (1572-1638) of

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, Cambridgeshire and Lady Dorothy Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter. His sons, Thomas and Christopher, succeeded successively to the baronetcy. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hatton, married Sir William Boteler of Kinton, Bedfordshire.

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