Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet (died 14 October 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  variously between 1640 and 1659. He fought on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War

English Civil War

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Barnardiston was the son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston

Nathaniel Barnardiston

Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1628 and 1648.Barnardiston was the son of Sir Thomas Barnardiston of Witham Essex and his wife Mary Knight, daughter of Sir RIchard Knight...

 of Ketton, Suffolk and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Peter Soame, Lord Mayor of London. His brother was Samuel Barnardiston

Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet was an English Whig Member of Parliament and deputy governor of the East India Company, defendant in some high-profile legal cases and involved in a highly contentious parliamentary election.-Life:...

. He matriculated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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 in Autumn 1633 and was admitted at Gray's Inn

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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

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 for Bury St. Edmunds in the Long Parliament

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 and survived Pride's Purge

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. In 1654 he was elected one of the MPs Suffolk

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 for the First Protectorate Parliament

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 and in 1656 in the Second Protectorate Parliament

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. He was re-elected in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament

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 and reattended as a member for Bury St Edmunds in the Restored Rump Parliament in 1659.

Barnardiston supported Restoration and was created Baronet

Barnardiston Baronets

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 of Ketton by King Charles II on 7 April 1663.

Barnardiston died in 1669 and was buried at Kedington.

Barnardiston married Anne Airmine daughter of Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet

Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet

Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet , of Osgodby in Lincolnshire, was an English Member of Parliament, and a leading member of the Long Parliament during the English Civil War.-Biography:...

of Osgodsby, Lincolnshire. He was succeeded by his son Thomas.