Thomas Leedes (died 1645) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1640 to 1642. He supported the

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cause in the

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and was killed in action fighting for the King. Leedes was the son of Sir John Leedes and his wife who was a daughter of Sir Thomas Monson of Burton Lincolnshire.Dugdale - Visitation of the County of York
/ref> In April 1640, he was elected

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for

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in the

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. He was re-elected MP for Steyning in the

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in November 1640. He was disabled from sitting in parliament on 23 November 1642 together with

Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet (28 November 1586 – February 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Bowyer was the son of ...

for assisting in putting a garrison into Chichester for the King.The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9
/ref> He was killed in the service of the King at Oxford in 1645. Leedes married Anne Browne, daughter of Sir Ambrose Browne, 1st Baronet of

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, Sussex.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leedes, Thomas Year of birth missing 1645 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 People killed in the English Civil War Cavaliers