Thomas Lane (17th-century MP)

Thomas Lane (1582 – 31 December 1652) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1648.

Career

Lane was educated at Clifford's Inn and was a bencher of the Inner Temple and lord of the manor of Greenford Parva.^[1]

In 1625 Lane was elected Member of Parliament for Wycombe and was re-elected in 1628. After an eleven-year period during which King Charles I ruled without parliaments, Lane was re-elected for Wycombe in April 1640 for the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in November 1640 to the Long Parliament and remained supporting the parliamentarian cause until ejected under Pride's Purge in 1648.^[2]

Early life and family

Lane was born in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire and baptised there on 2 January 1583. According to Heralds visitations, he was descended from the "Lane family of Thingdon and Orlingbury" in Northamptonshire.^[3]^[4]

He married twice but had no children. His second wife was Jane Duncombe, daughter of John Duncombe of East Claydon, Buckinghamshire.^[1]

Lane died at the age of 70 and a memorial exists in the church of Greenford Parva (or Perivale).^[1] His will was proved on 10 May 1653.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c John Allen Brown The chronicles of Greenford Parva; or, Perivale, past and present. With divers historical, archæological, and other notes, traditions, etc., relating to the church and manor, and the Brent Valley 1891
^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
^ Visitation of Bucks. Harleian Society
^ Visitation of Middlesex. Harleian Society
^ Will of Thomas Lane. Peculiar Court of Canterbury

Parliament of England
Preceded by Henry Coke	Member of Parliament for Wycombe 1625 With: Henry Coke	Succeeded by Henry Coke Edmund Waller
Preceded by Henry Coke Edmund Waller	Member of Parliament for Wycombe 1628–1629 With: Sir William Borlase	Parliament suspended until 1640
Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Wycombe 1640–1648 With: Sir Edmund Verney 1640–1642 Richard Browne 1645–1648	Unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament

[Brown-1] John Allen Brown The chronicles of Greenford Parva; or, Perivale, past and present. With divers historical, archæological, and other notes, traditions, etc., relating to the church and manor, and the Brent Valley 1891

[2] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

[3] Visitation of Bucks. Harleian Society

[4] Visitation of Middlesex. Harleian Society

[5] Will of Thomas Lane. Peculiar Court of Canterbury

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