Sir Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705) was an English politician.

Life

He was the son of Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins and his wife, Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney. In the West of England as a royalist of the

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with his father, in 1645–6, and arrested in 1659, Fanshawe was knighted in 1660 after the

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. He held the post of Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench, as his father had done. He became Member of Parliament for

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in 1685.

Family

Fanshawe married first Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Heath of Cottesmore, who died in 1674; and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of

Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe Order of the Bath, KB (1596 – 30 March 1665) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1661. He supported the Cavaliers, ...

. Susannah, who married Baptist Noel and was mother of

Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough Baptists are a denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul ...

, was a daughter of the first marriage. On her death in 1714, the house at Jenkins passed to her daughter of the same name, who sold it in 1717 to Sir William Humfreys, 1st Baronet. It was replaced by one in the Queen Anne style.'The ancient parish of Barking: Manors', in ''A History of the County of Essex'': Volume 5, ed. W. R .Powell (London, 1966), pp. 190–214 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp190-214 ccessed 24 May 2015

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fanshawe, Thomas 1628 births 1705 deaths English MPs 1685–1687 Cavaliers Knights Bachelor Fanshawe family