Thomas Clinton (MP)

Sir Thomas Clinton (died 1415) was an English soldier and member of parliament.

Clinton married twice: firstly Alice and secondly Joan, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Ralph Meynell (d. 1388), of Langley, Derbyshire and Newton Regis, Warwickshire and the widow of John Staunton of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire.

Through Joan he acquired land in Burton Overy and Upton, Leicestershire, Newton Regis (Warwickshire), Langley (Derbyshire) and Staffordshire.

On the death of his father in 1398 he inherited the manors of Hunton and Bensted in Kent, where he established the family home.

[2] He died of disease in mid-1415 at the siege of Harfleur when campaigning in the service of the Duke of Gloucester.