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Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet

1620 – 1694

Member of the English Parliament

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Lived 1620 – 1694 (aged 73–74). Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet was an English politician.

Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet (ca. 16202 June 1694) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.

Skipwith was the son of Edward Skipwith of Gosburton and Grantham and his wife Elizabeth Hatcher, daughter of Sir John Hatcher of Coteby, Lincolnshire. His father was the illegitimate son of William Skipwith, a Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire, and Anne Tothby.

In 1659, Skipwith was elected a Member of Parliament for Grantham in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected in 1660, as MP for Grantham in the Convention Parliament. and was created baronet of Metheringham on 27 July 1678.

Skipwith died at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields in June 1694.

Skipwith married firstly Elizabeth Lathom daughter of Ralph Lathom of Upminster, Essex. Their son Thomas succeeded to the baronetcy, and his daughter Susan married Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet of Minster. He married secondly Elizabeth Maddison, widow of Edward Maddison and daughter of Sir John Rea, but had no further children.

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1620
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Third Protectorate Parliament, Member of the April 1660 Parliament
Also known as
Sir Thomas Skipwith, of Metheringham, 1st Baronet

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Member of the English Parliament

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Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet was born in 1620.

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Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet died on 2 June 1694.

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Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet was a politician.

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Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet was English.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet

· Wikidata: Q7529268

· DBpedia: Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet

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