About Thomas Walsingham
Lived 1526 – 1584 (aged 57–58). Thomas Walsingham was a politician.
Thomas Walsingham (c. 1526 – 15 January 1584) was an English politician.
He was the only surviving son of Sir Edmund Walsingham of Scadbury, Lieutenant of the Tower and entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1542. He succeeded his father in 1550. He was knighted at Rye in 1573, when the queen was on progress through Kent.
Marriage and children Thomas Walsingham married Dorothy Guildford (died 1584), the daughter of Sir John Guildford of Benenden, Thomas Walsingham, who married Ethelred Shelton, and was a patron of Christopher Marlowe. He wrote his will in October 1583 and died the following January.
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