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Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet

1580 – 1658

English politician

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Lived 1580 – 1658 (aged 77–78). Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet was a politician.

Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet (c.1583 – 23 September 1658) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1621 and 1640.

Hatton was the son of John Hatton of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire and his wife Jane Shute, daughter of Robert Shute, Baron of the Exchequer, and justice of the Court of Common Pleas. His father's first cousin was Sir Christopher Hatton (1540-1591), Queen Elizabeth I's favourite. Sir Robert Hatton, the politician and landowner, was his brother. His other younger brother was Christopher Hatton, namesake and next heir of Sir Christopher Hatton of Kirby.

Hatton was elected Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle from 1621 to 1622 and for Malmesbury from 1624 to 1625. In 1628 Hatton was elected MP for Stamford until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640, he was re-elected for Stamford in the Short Parliament He was created a baronet, of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, by King Charles I on 5 July 1641.

Hatton died at the age of 75.

Hatton married Mary Alington, daughter of Sir Giles Alington (1572-1638) of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire and Lady Dorothy Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter. His sons, Thomas (2nd Baronet) and Christopher (5th Baronet), succeeded successively to the baronetcy. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hatton, married Sir William Boteler of Kinton, Bedfordshire.

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1580
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1621-22 Parliament, Member of the 1624-25 Parliament, Member of the 1625 Parliament
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Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Bt.

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Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet died on 23 September 1658.

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· Wikidata: Q7529165

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