Thomas Standish (c. 1593 – October 1642) of

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, Lancashire was an English politician who sat in the

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between 1640 and 1642. Standish was a zealous Parliamentarian. Dux hhal

Standish was the son of Alexander Standish of Duxbury, educated at

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and trained in law at

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. He inherited the family manors of Duxbury and

in 1622, on the death of his father. ''Townships: Duxbury'', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 208-213. Date accessed: 6 January 2011
/ref> He served as Prothonotary clerk of Common Bench for the Duchy of Lancaster from 1608 to 1635. During that time he was elected MP for

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in 1626. In April 1640, he was elected

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for Preston in the

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. He was re-elected in November 1640 and sat in the

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until his death in 1642. Standish died at the age of 49 and was buried at

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chapel. He had married twice; firstly Anne Wingfield, daughter of Sir Thomas Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk, with whom he had three sons and two daughters and secondly Anne, the daughter of Christopher Whittingham, of London and Suffolk, with whom he had a further three sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Thomas supported the king's side in the Civil War and was killed in September 1642 while taking part in the attack on Manchester. Standish was succeeded in turn by younger sons Alexander, a Roundhead colonel who died in 1648 and

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, MP for Lancashire and Preston, whose son and heir

was created a

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in 1677.

References

* , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Standish, Thomas 1590s births 1642 deaths People from Chorley Roundheads English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1640–1648 Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge