About Thomas Bishop
Thomas Bishop was a politician.
Thomas Bishop (by 1506–1560) was an English politician who was a Member of the Parliament (MP) for Gatton in 1542.
Nothing is known of Bishop before 1527, by which time he was a clerk to Sir William Shelley, recorder of London. He was elected to parliament in 1542 for Gatton, Surrey through the patronage of Sir William's daughter Elizabeth, who had married Robert Copley of Gatton.
He married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Belknap (d. 1521), Shelley's brother-in-law, and widow of Walter Scott (d. 1550) of Stapleford Tawney and Woolston, Essex. by whom she had issue. He was the father of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet.
There is a memorial to him in Henfield church.
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English politician, MP, died 1560
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