Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet (c. 1646 – 7 October 1698) was an English nobleman and Whig^[1] politician.

Life

Barnardiston was the son of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet and Anne Airmine, daughter of Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet.^[2] He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 19 June 1667.^[3] He succeeded to his father's title on 4 October 1669.

Between 1685 and 1690 Barnardiston served as the Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in the House of Commons of England. From 1690 to 1698 he was the MP for Sudbury.^[4] In 1692 he was Colonel of the Yellow Regiment of Suffolk Militia.^[5]

He married Elizabeth King, the daughter of Sir Robert King of Boyle Abbey, Roscommon, in the Kingdom of Ireland and his second wife Sophia Zouch, daughter of Sir Edward Zouch and Dorothea Silking, the Danish chamberer to Queen Anne of Denmark. They had four sons, three of whom later inherited their father's baronetcy.^[6]

^ D. W. Hayton (2002). "BARNARDISTON, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. (c.1646-98), of Kedington, Suff. and Silk Willoughby, Lincs.". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690–1715. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ A. Collins, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing, Volume III Part II (Thomas Wotton, London 1741), p. 400 (Google).
^ J. Foster (ed.), The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889 (Hansard, London 1889), p. 302 (Hathi Trust).
^ P. Watson, 'Barnardiston, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. (c.1646-98), of Kedington, Suff. and Silk Willoughby, Lincs.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 (from Boydell and Brewer 1983), History of Parliament Online.
^ Col. George Jackson Hay, An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force), London: United Service Gazette, 1905/Ray Westlake Military Books, 1987, ISBN 0-9508530-7-0/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78331-171-2, p 128.
^ Collins, The English Baronetage III Part II (1741), p. 400.

Parliament of England
Preceded by George Pelham William Broxholme	Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1685–1690 With: Sir Edward Ayscough	Succeeded by John Chaplin
Preceded by John Robinson Philip Gurdon	Member of Parliament for Sudbury 1690–1698 With: Samuel Kekewich	Succeeded by John Gurdon
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Sir Thomas Barnardiston	Baronet (of Ketton) 1669–1698	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Barnardiston

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