Thomas Standish

Thomas Standish (c. 1593 – October 1642) of Duxbury Hall, Lancashire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642.

[1] He served as Prothonotary clerk of Common Bench for the Duchy of Lancaster from 1608 to 1635.

He was re-elected in November 1640 and sat in the Long Parliament until his death in 1642.

His eldest son, Thomas supported the king's side in the Civil War and was killed in September 1642 while taking part in the attack on Manchester.

Standish was succeeded in turn by younger sons: Alexander, a Roundhead colonel who died in 1648 and Richard, MP for Lancashire and Preston, whose son and heir Richard was created a baronet in 1677.