James Thynne

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Sir James Thynne (1605 – 12 October 1670) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1670.

Thynne was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, Wiltshire. He was knighted at Berwick on 23 June 1639.[1]

In November 1640, Thynne was elected Member of Parliament for Wiltshire in the Long Parliament.[2] He was disabled from sitting in 1642.

Longleat House

In 1655 Thynne founded an almshouse at Longbridge Deverill.[3] Following the Restoration, he was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1661. Sir Christopher Wren advised him on improvements to the house at Longleat which included the great stairs and stone terrace.[4] In 1664 he was re-elected MP for Wiltshire in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1670.[5]

Thynne married Lady Isabella Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and his wife Isabel Cope. He died without issue and his nephew Thomas succeeded to the estates.[6]

Parliament of England
Preceded by
Philip Lord Herbert
Sir Francis Seymour		 Member of Parliament for Wiltshire
1640-1642
With: Sir Henry Ludlow		 Succeeded by
James Herbert
Edmund Ludlow

References

  1. ↑ Knights of England
  2. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 .... London. pp. 229–239. 
  3. ↑ British Listed Buildings Sir James Thynne House
  4. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography
  5. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard, (1938 ed) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Shaw, London. p.243
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