Henry Thynne (1675–1708)

[1] As a young man, he taught French and Italian to his contemporary Elizabeth Singer (1674–1737), in whom Bishop Thomas Ken, then living at Longleat, had taken an interest when she was twelve.

[7] At the 1695 English general election Thynne was put up as a candidate for parliament at Weobley but in an unpredictable borough was unsuccessful.

[1] Thynne supported the motion on 26 February 1702 which vindicated the Commons' proceedings in the impeaching the Whig lords.

He voted against agreeing with the Lords' amendments to the bill increasing the time for taking the oath of abjuration on 13 February 1703, but in April 1703, he fell ill, and was described by his father as 'overrun with the spleen'.

At the 1705 English general election, he was returned again as Tory MP for Weymouth and voted against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705.

After he had died suddenly on 20 December 1708, the findings of a post mortem were reported in a letter to Edward Harley from his sister: Though he never complained, his vitals were wholly corrupted, his heart was like a lump of fat and blood, when they touched his lungs they fell to pieces and had an imposthume in them which they think was the cause of his sudden death, his liver wasted, and an ulcer in his kidneys, and a dropsy in one side of his belly.