Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet (18 October 1632 – 22 April 1689) of
Elton Hall
Elton Hall is a baronial hall in Elton, Cambridgeshire. It has been the ancestral home of the Proby family (sometime known as the Earls of Carysfort) since 1660.
The hall lies in an estate through which the River Nene runs. The building inc ...
, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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between 1660 and 1685.
Proby was the son of Sir Heneage Proby (of
Elton Elton may refer to:
Places
England
* Elton, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), a village
** Elton Hall, a baronial hall
* Elton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
* Elton, County Durham, a village and civil parish
* Elton, Derbyshire, ...
and Raans, Buckinghamshire) and his wife Ellen Allen, daughter of Edward Allen, of Finchley, Middlesex.
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In 1660, Proby was elected Member of Parliament
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for Amersham
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in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Amersham in the Cavalier Parliament
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and sat until 1679.[ History of Parliament Online - Proby, Thomas]
/ref> He was created a baronet
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in 1662.[ In 1679 he was elected MP for ]Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...
and sat until 1685.[
He carried out a number of improvements to Elton Hall.] Proby died at the age of 56.
Family
Proby married Frances Cotton, daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet of Connington, Huntingdonshire. His daughter Alice married the Hon. Thomas Watson-Wentworth
Hon. Thomas Watson, later known as Thomas Watson-Wentworth (17 June 1665 – 6 October 1723), of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1723.
Origins
He was ...
MP, and had an only child, Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, KB, PC (I) (13 November 1693 – 14 December 1750) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 until 1728 when he was raised to ...
. Proby's son died travelling and the baronetcy became extinct on Proby's death. The Elton estate passed to his brother John Proby.[
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References
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1632 births
1689 deaths
People from Amersham
People from Elton, Cambridgeshire
English MPs 1660
English MPs 1661–1679
English MPs 1680–1681
English MPs 1681
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Huntingdonshire