Thomas Bishop (by 1506–1560) was an English politician who was a Member of the Parliament (MP) for Gatton in 1542.
[1] Nothing is known of Bishop before 1527, by which time he was a clerk to Sir William Shelley, recorder of London.
[1] Admitted to the Inner Temple, by 1528 he was prothonotary to the sheriff's court in London.
[1] In 1533 he was granted the lease of the rectory of Henfield, Sussex by Robert Sherborne, bishop of Chichester for whom he acted as lawyer.
[3] He married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Belknap (d. 1521), Shelley's brother-in-law, and widow of Walter Scott[4] (d. 1550) of Stapleford Tawney and Woolston, Essex.