Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705)

Sir Thomas Fanshawe (1628–1705) was an English politician.

He was the son of Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins and his wife, Susan, daughter of Matthias Otten of Putney.

[1][2] In the West of England as a royalist of the First English Civil War with his father, in 1645–6, and arrested in 1659, Fanshawe was knighted in 1660 after the English Restoration.

[3] He held the post of Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench, as his father had done.

On her death in 1714, the house at Jenkins passed to her daughter of the same name, who sold it in 1717 to Sir William Humfreys, 1st Baronet.