Sir Thomas Fanshawe KB (1580 – 17 December 1631) was an English government official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1629.
Fanshawe was the second son of Thomas Fanshawe and first son by his second wife Joan Smythe, daughter of Customer Smythe and was baptised on 15 September 1580.
[1] He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and admitted at the Inner Temple in 1595.
[3] In 1601, he inherited the estate of Jenkins and Barking Manor, Essex, on the death of his father.
He was reelected MP for Lancaster in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.