Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet

Who is Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet?

Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659. He fought on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.

Barnardiston was the son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston of Ketton, Suffolk and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Peter Soame, Lord Mayor of London. His brother was Samuel Barnardiston. He matriculated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in Autumn 1633 and was admitted at Gray's Inn on 1 May 1635.

Barnardiston was knighted in 1641 but fought on the side of parliament in the Civil War. In 1645, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds in the Long Parliament and survived Pride's Purge. In 1654 he was elected one of the MPs Suffolk for the First Protectorate Parliament and in 1656 in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament and reattended as a member for Bury St Edmunds in the Restored Rump Parliament in 1659.

Barnardiston supported Restoration and was created a baronet, of Ketton, by King Charles II on 7 April 1663.

Barnardiston died in 1669 and was buried at Kedington.