Jeremiah Tolhurst (1615 – 1671) was an English tailor, soldier, businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660.
In 1657 he was commissioner for assessment for Dumfries in 1657 and became joint farmer of excise for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland until 1658.
He was commissioner for assessment for Northumberland from August 1660 to 1661, sub-commissioner of excise for Cumberland and Westmorland from 1661 to 1662 and customs official for Newcastle by 1664.
[1] Tolhurst emigrated to the West Indies before July 1671 and died intestate in Jamaica three months later.
[1] Tolhurst married firstly by licence dated 25 September 1636, Elizabeth Soule, daughter of Robert Soule, tailor, of Rye, Sussex who brought him three houses in Rye which she had inherited.