Thomas Puckering

Sir Thomas Puckering, 1st Baronet (1592 – 20 March 1637) was an English landowner, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.

His father was Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

[1] Educated at Warwick School, he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father on 30 April 1596.

[2] After five years in the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, who was tutored by Thomas's brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the English ambassador Sir Thomas Edmondes.

He sat until 1629 when Charles I of England decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.