Thomas Cartwright (politician)

[1] He was admitted to St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1687 where Samuel Bradford was his tutor.

He was returned as Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in an expensive contest at the 1695 English general election.

He voted on 26 February 1702 for the resolution to vindicate the Commons’ proceedings in the impeaching the King's ministers.

He was returned again at the 1702 English general election but was absent from the House for some time because he had sprained his foot badly in a hunting accident.

[4] In 1711 the scholar Joseph Wasse came to be rector of Aynho, on the death of Matthew Hutton;[5][6] in a letter to Jean Le Clerc he praised the library of Cartwright's wife Armine .

[7] Cartwright went frequently to Bath where he was in the company of leading Tory families - the Harleys, the Foleys and the Winningtons.

In 1714 his main parliamentary action was supervising the passage of a bill on the navigation of the Nene.