Thomas Thynne (died 1639)

Sir Thomas Thynne (c.1578–1639), of Longleat, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1629.

The two were married on the day they first met[2] and for some time kept their marriage secret because their fathers were bitterly opposed to each other,[3] continuing a feud which had begun in the previous generation.

These events are speculated to have provided the impetus the next year for Shakespeare to produce the play Romeo and Juliet, based on an earlier Italian story that begins with a similar clandestine marriage between feuding families.

With her he had further sons, including Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet (1615–1680), ancestor of the Marquesses of Bath.

However, this election was disallowed by the Commons on the grounds that a sitting member was not eligible to be returned for a second constituency.