Sir Thomas Grantham was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  from 1604 to 1629.

Grantham was the son of Vincent Grantham of Goltho and St Katherines, Lincolnshire. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford

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 on 9 May 1589, aged 16, and was a student of Lincoln's Inn

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 in 1592 .

He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire

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 in 1600 and was knighted at Belvoir Castle on 23 April 1603.

In 1604 and 1614, Grantham was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Lincoln

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 and for Lincolnshire

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 in 1621 and 1624. He was elected MP for Lincoln again in 1625, 1626 and 1628 when he sat until 1629, after which time King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

Grantham lived at Goltho

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, Lincolnshire where he died in 1630.

Grantham firstly married Frances Puckering, the daughter of John Puckering; they had four sons and three daughters. He secondly married Lucy, daughter of William Boughton, with whom he had a further daughter. One son Thomas Grantham

Thomas Grantham (Parliamentarian)

Thomas Grantham was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He fought on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.Grantham was the son of Sir Thomas Grantham and his wife Frances Puckering...

became MP for Grantham.