Thomas Waite
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Thomas Waite was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.
He was born in Leicestershire and was trained as a lawyer at Gray's Inn. In the English Civil War, he fought on the side of Parliament. In 1644 he was appointed governor of Rutland, and in 1646 he was elected as that town's MP.
In January 1649, as a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was 56th of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King. After the Restoration, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and was imprisoned in Jersey Castle. His date of death is unknown.
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