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

  1. 1 2 3 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. onepage&q&f&#61, false 229–239.
  3. ↑ Visitation of Bucks. Harleian Society
  4. ↑ Visitation of Middlesex. Harleian Society
  5. ↑ 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
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Henry Coke
Edmund Waller		 Member of Parliament for Wycombe
1628–1629
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Parliament suspended until 1640
Preceded by
Parliament suspended since 1629		 Member of Parliament for Wycombe
1640–1648
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Richard Browne 1645–1648		 Succeeded by
Unrepresented until 1654
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