Thomas Fleetwood (of the Vache)

Thomas Fleetwood (1517/18 – 1570), of London, The Vache, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire and Rossall, Lancashire, was an English politician.

[1] He was a Member of Parliament, a judge, and Master of the Royal Mint under King Henry VIII.

The profits from the appointments enabled him to buy land in both Buckinghamshire and Lancashire, particularly the estate known as the Vache in Chalfont St Giles, which he purchased in 1564.

[1] He died in 1570 and was buried in an elaborate tomb at Chalfont St. Giles.

His second wife was Bridget, the youngest child of Sir John Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, with whom he had seven sons and seven daughters, including William, George, Henry and Joyce, grandmother of the leading statesman Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds.

The Vache, Buckinghamshire