Thomas Walsingham (c. 1526 – 1584)

Thomas Walsingham (c. 1526 – 15 January 1584) was an English politician.

He was the only surviving son of Sir Edmund Walsingham of Scadbury, Lieutenant of the Tower and was trained in the law at Lincoln's Inn in 1542.

As well as his main estates near Chislehurst, he had property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Surrey and London.

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone in 1571.

Thomas Walsingham married Dorothy Guildford (died 1584), the daughter of Sir John Guildford of Benenden, and had 5 sons and 8 daughters, including: This article about a 16th-century member of the parliament of England is a stub.