Sir Thomas Exton (1631–1688) was an English admiralty lawyer, Member of Parliament, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1641, was admitted a member of Gray's Inn in 1648, and went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded LL.D.
[1] In 1676 he became Master of Trinity Hall, and held the office till his death.
He died in 1688, and was buried on 8 November at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf.
The Case of the Merchants concerned in the Loss of the Ship Virgin, ... as it was ... presented to his Majesty by Sir R. Lloyd and Sir Thomas Exton, was printed in 1680.