Family and Education
b. c.1596, 1st s. of Sir Richard Wenman†, 1st Visct. Wenman of Tuam [I], and 1st w. Agnes (bur. 4 July 1617), da. of Sir George Fermor of Easton Neston, Northants.Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 179; CP. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 23 Nov. 1604, aged 8;Al. Ox. I. Temple 12 Oct. 1614.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. c. July 1617, Margaret (d. 1 May 1658), da. and coh. of Edmund Hampden of Wendover, Bucks., 4s. d.v.p. 6da. (?3 d.v.p.).Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 56, 86; Vis. Oxon. 179; B. Willis, Hist. and Antiquities of Buckingham, 336; CP; PROB11/316, f. 147v. Kntd. 10 Sept. 1617;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 266. suc. fa. as 2nd Visct. 3 Apr. 1640; d. 25 Jan. 1665.CP.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Oxon. 8 July 1630 – 18 Mar. 1644, Mar. 1660–d.;C231/5, p. 38; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 169. Bucks. by Oct. 1660–d. Commr. sewers, Berks. and Oxon. 18 July 1634;C181/4, f. 179. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 23 Jan. 1636 – aft.Jan. 1642, 10 July 1660–d.;C181/5, ff. 33, 218v; C181/7, pp. 10, 317. Bucks. 23 June 1640;C181/5, f. 176v. perambulation, Shotover, Stowood and Wychwood forests, Oxon. 28 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 209v. commr. for Bucks., Oxon. 25 July 1644;A. and O. assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Oxon. 1660; subsidy, Bucks., Oxon. 1663.SR.

Central: commr. for disbursing subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; assessment, 1642.SR. Member, cttee. for examinations, 26 Mar. 1642.CJ ii. 499a. Commr. Uxbridge Propositions, 28 Jan. 1645; exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647;A. and O. treaty with king at Newport, 6 Sept. 1648.LJ x. 492b.

: of Thame Park, Oxon., Thame and Bucks., Twyford.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WENMAN, Sir Thomas (c.1596-1665), of Thame Park, Thame, Oxon. and Twyford, Bucks.

Will
3 Dec. 1658, cod. 6 Jan. 1665, pr. 6 Feb. 1665.PROB11/316, f. 147.
Estates
in 1646, held a house (?in Westminster), belonging to sequestered royalist Sir Thomas Aylesbury, and leasing a house in Chiswick, Mdx., from sequestered royalist John Lord Poulett.Bodl., Nalson XIV, f. 224; Add. 18780, ff. 19v, 20v; Add. 31116, p. 418. In 1665, estate inc. manors of and lands in Twyford, Charndon and Poundon, Bucks.; manor of Copcourt and lands in Copcourt, Aston Rowant and Lewknor, Oxon., lately purchased; lands in Sydenham, Oxon.; property in Wales lately purchased; mansion houses at Thame Park and Twyford; and a lease of parsonage of Twyford.PROB11/316, ff. 147r, 147v, 149.
Oxford 1644
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