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

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  variously between 1614 and 1640. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War

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Walsingham was the son of Sir Thomas Walsingham

Thomas Walsingham (literary patron)

Sir Thomas Walsingham was a courtier to Queen Elizabeth I and literary patron to such poets as Thomas Watson, Thomas Nashe, George Chapman and Christopher Marlowe. He was related to Elizabeth's spymaster Francis Walsingham and the employer of Marlowe's murderer Ingram Frizer...

 and his wife Katherine Gunter, daughter of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surrey, and Brecknock in Wales.

Walsingham was knighted at Royston on 26 November 1613. In 1614 he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Poole. He was elected MP for Rochester

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 in 1621 and again in 1628 when he retained the seat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament. He was made vice-admiral of Kent in 1627.

In April 1640, Walsingham was re-elected MP for Rochester for the Short Parliament

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 and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament

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 when he sat until 1653, surviving Pride's Purge

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Walsingham sold the family property of Scadbury in around 1655.

Walsingham died in 1669 and was buried at Chislehurst

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on 10 April 1669.

Walsingham married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Manwood, daughter of Sir Peter Manwood.