Sir Thomas Jermyn

Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573–1645) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English Royalist soldier and politician who was a Member of Parliament between 1604 and 1640. He became an influential courtier and served as Comptroller of the Household to Charles I from 1639 to 1641.

Early life Jermyn was the son of Sir Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke Hall and Judith, daughter of Sir George Blagge. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1585 and entered the Middle Temple in 1590. In April 1640 Jermyn was re-elected for Bury St Edmunds in the Short Parliament, and a few months later was elected to the Long Parliament. He was made Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk the same year. By his first wife he had four sons and one daughter. In 1605 their daughter, Elizabeth, died from eating a piece of bread baited with rat poison. The following children survived to adulthood: Robert Jermyn (1601–1623), MP for Penryn, predeceased his father; Thomas Jermyn (1604–1659), eldest surviving son, MP for Bury St Edmunds; Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans (1605–1684), MP, courtier and Royalist.

On 17 March 1642, Jermyn married secondly Mary (died 1679), the daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds and widow of Thomas Newton of Norwich. The couple had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Cyril Wyche and was the mother of Jermyn Wyche.