Sir Thomas Tomkins JP (c. 1605 – 31 December 1674) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1674.
[1] His ancestors had been gentry in Herefordshire since the 15th century, but were of minor importance before the Tudor period, and his father, who was responsible for the re-enfranchisement of Weobley in 1628, was the first of the family to sit in Parliament.
[3] He supported the king and was disabled form sitting in parliament on 22 January 1644.
[2] He succeeded to the family estates, including Garnstone Manor, Weobley, upon his elder brother William's death in 1640, and was knighted in 1663.
Together, they were the parents of one son, who died young, and three daughters,[2] including: After his first wife's death, he married Lucy Uvedale, a daughter of Sir William Uvedale, of Wickham and widow of Thomas Neale of Warnford, on 21 February 1648.