Thomas Duffield was a Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1844.

Duffield was born at Ancaster

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 in Lincolnshire

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, the youngest son of Michael Duffield of Sunninghill Park

Sunninghill Park

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 in Berkshire

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 and his wife, Alice, youngest daughter of Jeremiah Crutchley of Southwark

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 in Surrey

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 (now Greater London

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).

Thomas Duffield was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Abingdon

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 under the reformed parliament at the 1832 general election

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. He held the seat until 1844.

Duffield eloped with Amelia ('Emily') Maria Frances Elwes, daughter and sole heiress of George Elwes Esq of Marcham Park

Denman College

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 at Marcham

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 in Berkshire

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 (now Oxfordshire

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) and granddaughter of the notoriously miserly John Elwes

John Elwes (politician)

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, MP for Berkshire. They had three sons and five daughters together. They inherited Marcham and extended the estate by the purchase of Upwood. Emily died in 1835 and Duffield married a second time to Augusta Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of Lieut-Col Robert Rushbrooke of Rushbrooke Park in Suffolk

Suffolk

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. They had two sons and three daughters.

Duffield died in Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), at the age of 61, on 15 March 1854.

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