Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet (30 May 1658 – 30 November 1712), of Waldershare, Kent, and Dover Street, Westminster, was an English merchant and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1712.

[1] He was an apprentice of the Drapers’ Company in 1672, and pursued a career in the City of London as a merchant trader.

She was buried in the parish church of St Lawrence Jewry on 30 June 1695.

His second marriage was to Matilda, the widow of Anthony Balam and daughter of fellow London merchant Sir Thomas Vernon.

[1] Furnese died on 30 November 1712, aged 54, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Robert.