Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet (died 14 October 1669) was an English baronet, landowner, soldier and MP who sat in the

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at various times between 1640 and 1659. He fought on the

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side in the

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Biography

Barnardiston was the son of Sir

Nathaniel Barnardiston Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588 – 25 July 1653) of Kedington, alias Ketton, Suffolk was an English (East Anglian) landowner, magistrate and senior representative of a long-established knightly family, one of the wealthiest in Suffolk, ...

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("Ketton"), Suffolk and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir

Stephen Soame Sir Stephen Soame (c. 1540 – 23 May 1619) was an English merchant, landowner and politics, politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1601. He served as Lord Mayor of London for the year 1598 to 1599.A.M. ...

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.J. Burke and J.B. Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England'' (Scott, Webster and Geary, London 1838)
p. 40
(Misprints "Peter" for "Stephen" Soame.) His brother was Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Bart. of Brightwell, Suffolk. He matriculated from

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in Autumn 1633 and was admitted at

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on 1 May 1635. Barnardiston was knighted in 1641 but fought on the side of parliament in the Civil War. In 1645, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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and survived

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. He commanded a foot regiment of the Suffolk Trained Bands at the

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in 1648. In 1654 he was elected one of the MPs for

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for the

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and in 1656 in the

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. He was re-elected in 1659 for the

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and reattended as a member for Bury St Edmunds in the Restored Rump Parliament in 1659. Barnardiston married Anne Airmine, daughter of

Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet Sir William Armine, 1st Baronet (11 December 1593 – 10 April 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1651. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. (His name was als ...

of Osgodby in

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, Lincolnshire. He supported the Restoration of the Monarchy, and was created 1st Baronet of Ketton by King Charles II on 7 April 1663. He died in 1669 and was buried at Kedington. He was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas (1646–1698). His daughter Anne became the second wife of the traveller Sir

Philip Skippon (1641-1691) Major-General Philip Skippon ( – 20 February 1660) was an English army officer and politician. He fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War as a senior officer in the New Model Army. Prior to the war, Skippon fought in ...

of Wrentham and Edwardstone in Suffolk.P. Watson, 'Skippon, Sir Philip (1641-91), of Edwardstone, Suff.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (from Boydell and Brewer 1983)
History of Parliament

References

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