Thomas Meautys

Sir Thomas Meautys (1592–1649) was an English civil servant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1640.

He is credited, with William Rawley, as being one of two key clients of Bacon who remained loyal to the former Lord Chancellor in his disgrace.

Meautys eventually paid for a funerary monument to Bacon at his gravesite in St.

[4][5] After Bacon's fall, Meautys became a protégé of Lord Keeper Coventry, High Steward of Cambridge from 1626 to 1640.

He was re-elected MP for Cambridge in 1625, 1626, and 1628 and continued to sit for the town until King Charles I began to rule without parliament in 1629.