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bap. 24 Sept. 1617, 2nd s. of John Thomlinson (d. 1617), of St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, and Eleanor, da. of Matthew Dodsworth, chancellor of the diocese of York and registrar of York Minster.The Par. Regs. of Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York ed. R.B. Cook (York, 1911), 14; Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 202. m. by 1653, Pembroke (d. 1683), da. and coh. of Sir William Brooke†, of Cooling Park, Kent, 1s. 2da.Regs. of St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London ed. W.H. Hunt (Harl. Soc. xxxiii), 1; Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 203. Kntd. 24 Nov. 1657.Shaw, Knights. of Eng. ii. 224. d. 5 Nov. 1681.C.H.D. Ward, The Fam. of Twysden and Twisden (1939), 354.
Offices Held

Military: vol. (parlian.) lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, c.Sept. 1642.Ludlow, Mems. i. 39. Capt. of horse, regt. of 2nd earl of Manchester, Eastern Assoc. army by Feb. 1644;SP28/12, f. 281; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database. maj. of horse, regt. of Sir Robert Pye II*, New Model army by June 1645; col. Aug. 1647-Aug. 1654.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 63, 83, 95; ii. 96; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 130, 133–4.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. law reform, 17 Jan. 1652.CJ vii. 74a; M. Cotterell, ‘Interregnum law reform: the Hale commission of 1652’, EHR lxxxiii. 691. Judge, probate of wills, 8 Apr. 1653.A. and O. Cllr. of state by 19 May, 9 July 1653.CSP Dom. 1652–3, pp. xxxiv, 339; CJ vii. 283a.

Local: j.p. Beds. 13 Sept. 1653-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 267. Commr. assessment, 24 Nov. 1653.An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28).

Irish: cllr. of state, 17 Aug. 1654, Nov. 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 437–8, 672. Commr. public money, 23 Oct. 1656;C.H. Firth, ‘Acct. of money spent in the Cromwellian reconquest’, EHR xiv. 106. security of protector, Ireland 27 Nov. 1656; commr. Ireland, 7 July 1659.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
THOMLINSON, Matthew (1617-81), of Ampthill Gt. Park, Ampthill, Beds.
: of Ampthill Gt. Park, Beds., Ampthill.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown, c.1650.R.G. Hatton and C.H. Hatton, ‘Notes on the fam. of Twysden and Twisden’, Arch. Cant. lviii. plate x.

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Commons 1640-1660
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THOMLINSON, Matthew (1617-81), of Ampthill Gt. Park, Ampthill, Beds.

Will
not found.
Estates
bought Ampthill Great Park, Beds. for £6,139 16s, 1653; bought land at Dyndathway, Anglesey for £2,754 3s 5d, 1654;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debentures market and military purchases of crown lands’, (Univ. London PhD thesis, 1969), 344. probably inherited some of the estates of Sir John Brooke*, 1659; owned house in St Peter’s Street, Westminster, 1663.WCA, E1621, p. 31.
Oxford 1644
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