Thomas Scawen

Sir Thomas Scawen (c. 1650 – 22 September 1730) was a British merchant, financier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722.

At the 1708 British general election he was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Grampound.

In Parliament, he supported the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709, and voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710.

[3] Scawen died on 22 September 1730 at Carshalton and was buried at Horton, Buckinghamshire.

He left Horton to his eldest son, Thomas, who married a daughter of Hon.

Portrait of Thomas Scawen, three-quarter-length, in a cream coat and blue waistcoat, in a landscape with a classical building beyond