Thomas Hales (c. 1515 – 1585 or later), of Thanington, near Canterbury, Kent, was an English politician.
1540), Baron of the Exchequer, of The Dungeon or Dane John,[1] Canterbury, Kent, and his wife Isabel (or Elizabeth) daughter of Stephen Harry.
[2] Hales is thought to have been about 30 years of age when he was sworn to the liberties of Canterbury on 19 September 1547.
After Cranmer's death Hales was not re-elected to Parliament, and was only active in local matters in Kent.
He was appointed a justice of the Kent bench in 1558, and remained in that post until his death, which took place c. 1585, at which time a document contains his named, crossed out, with 'mortuus' written beside it.