Thomas Whetham (c. 1665 – 28 April 1741) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1727.
His grandfather was Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, who had served in the parliamentary army during the English Civil War.
His father died in 1667, and he went on to enter military service, joining the 1st Foot as an ensign in 1685.
[1] Whetham served under the Duke of Argyll during the Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding the left wing of the government army at the Battle of Sheriffmuir on 13 November 1715.
He acquired the manors of Kirklington and Hockerton in Nottinghamshire for the sum of £25,000 some time around 1739, and in 1740 he became Governor of Berwick and Holy Island.