Thomas Hussey (MP for Whitchurch)

Thomas Hussey (1597 - December 1657) of Hungerford Park[1] was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1657.

Thomas Hussey of Hungerford purchased a lease of Hungerford Park from John Herbert.[2]

In 1645, Hussey was elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch in the Long Parliament and remained until 1653.[3] In 1650 he purchased a part of Kintbury from Henry Marten.[4] In 1656 he was elected MP for Andover in the Second Protectorate Parliament.[3]

Hussey died in 1657 and left Hungerford Park to his wife Catherine for her life with remainder to his eldest son Thomas Hussey.

Confusion of identities

Thomas Hussey of Hungerford is confused by A.B. Beavan[5] with Thomas Hussey Sr. of Shere and Abinger in Surrey (died 1655),[6] a citizen of London of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, who became alderman of the City of London for Vintry ward on 17 Jul 1645, and was father of Thomas Hussey Jr. (died 1671),[7] citizen and Grocer, of Hampstead,[8] alderman from 1661.[9]

References
  1. Will of Thomas Hussey of Hungerford Park, Berkshire (P.C.C. 1657).
  2. 'Parishes: Hungerford', in W. Page and P.H. Ditchfield (eds), A History of the County of Berkshire, Vol. 4 (V.C.H., London 1924), pp. 183-200. (British History online accessed 26 November 2016).
  3. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. 'Parishes: Kintbury', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 205-217. Date accessed: 16 July 2011
  5. A.B. Beavan, The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III to 1912 (Corporation of the City of London, 1913), II, p. 67. Some relationships described in this work are unreliable.
  6. Will of Thomas Hussey of Shere (P.C.C. 1655). See The National Archives Discovery Catalogue, piece description D239 M/T 929, 'Settlement by John Leigh of Abinger to enfeoff Thomas Hussey, citizen and Grocer of London, 1647' (Derbyshire Record Office).
  7. Will of Thomas Hussey of Hampstead (P.C.C. 1671).
  8. T.F.T. Baker, D.K. Bolton and P.E.C. Croot, 'Hampstead: Hampstead Town', in C.R. Elrington (ed.), A History of the County of Middlesex Vol. 9, 'Hampstead, Paddington' (V.C.H., London 1989), pp. 15-33.
  9. Beavan, Aldermen of London, II, p. 93.
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