About Thomas Fanshawe
Lived 1628 – 1705 (aged 76–77). Thomas Fanshawe was an English politician.
Sir Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705) was an English politician.
Life He was the son of Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins and his wife, Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney. In the West of England as a royalist of the First English Civil War with his father, in 1645–6, and arrested in 1659, Fanshawe was knighted in 1660 after the English Restoration. He held the post of Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench, as his father had done. He became Member of Parliament for Essex in 1685.
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Who was Thomas Fanshawe?
English politician.
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Thomas Fanshawe was born in 1628.
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Thomas Fanshawe died in 1705.
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Thomas Fanshawe was a politician.
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