Sir Thomas Danby (1610 – 5 August 1660) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.

Life

Danby was the son of

Christopher Danby Sir Christopher Danby Member of parliament, MP Justice of the peace, JP (1503 – 14 June 1571), of Farnley Hall, West Yorkshire, Farnley, Masham, and Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, of St Paul's Cray, St. Paul's Cray, Kent, and of Kettleby, Lincolnshi ...

, and his wife Frances Parker, daughter of Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley. John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank''
/ref> He owned 10 manors and over 2,000 acres including coal mines. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1637 and was knighted on 25 July 1633. Danby was elected Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire for the Long Parliament in November 1640. He supported the King and was disabled from sitting in parliament in September 1642. He was fined £4,780 for his loyalty. Danby died in London and was buried in York Minster.York Minster Burials
Danby married Katherine Wandesford, elder daughter of

Christopher Wandesford Christopher Wandesford (24 September 1592 – 3 December 1640) was an English administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the last months of his life. Life Wandesford was ...

Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive (government), executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland ...

, and Alice Osborne; she died in 1645. They had sixteen children, of whom ten, eight boys and two girls, survived infancy. Their son Thomas Danby (1631–1667) was the first Mayor of Leeds.

References

1610 births 1660 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 High Sheriffs of Yorkshire 17th-century English landowners Roundheads Thomas Burials at York Minster {{17thC-England-MP-stub