About Thomas Humphrey
Lived 1554 – 1624 (aged 69–70). Thomas Humphrey was a politician.
Sir Thomas Humphrey (c. 1554 – 4 February 1624) was an English politician.
He was a younger son of William Humphrey of Barton Segrave and Swepstone, Leicestershire and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1589. He was a justice of the peace for Leicestershire from c. 1601 and appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1602–1603. He was knighted on 23 July 1603.
He married twice: firstly Mary, the daughter of William Mering of Mering, Northamptonshire and secondly Suzanna, the daughter of George Pilkington of Barston, with whom he had 3 sons and 3 daughters.
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