About Thomas Horsman
Lived 1530 – 1610 (aged 79–80). Thomas Horsman was a politician.
Thomas Horsman (c. 1536 – 26 November 1610) was an English politician.
He was the son of Thomas Horsman (d. 1553) and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Hussey of Blankney, Lincolnshire and sister and co-heir of Thomas Hussey. At his death his father held Mareham Grange, formerly a grange of Haverholme Priory and the manor of Burton Pedwardine. A minor when his father died, Horsman was raised in the household of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. He was knighted at the Tower of London by the king on 14 March 1604, a few days before Parliament opened.
He married a widow called Anne (d. 1612), but died childless at the Savoy in November 1610. After his death a memorial was erected to him at Burton Pedwardine by his nephew and heir Thomas.
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