Thomas Inwen (died 1743), of St. Saviour's, Southwark was a British brewer and politician who sat in the

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from 1730 to 1743. Inwen was a Southwark brewer. He married Sarah Hucks, daughter of William Hucks brewer of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. Inwen was returned as

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for

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at a by-election on 23 January 1730 and was returned again at the

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. He voted against the Administration in all recorded divisions. On 10 March 1732 he supported a bill to stop hops being imported from America into Ireland. He was re-elected at the

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. He did not vote in the election of the chairman of the elections committee in December 1741 and the division on the Hanoverians in December 1742. Inwen died on 19 April 1743, leaving his property in trust to his only daughter,

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, who married

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Inwen, Thomas 1743 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 Year of birth missing