FANSHAWE, Thomas II (1580-1631), of Jenkins, Barking, Essex.

Like his father, Fanshawe entered government service. Whether he owed his return to Parliament for Bedford to a legal or professional connexion or to William Butler I is not known. In James I’s reign his duchy office ensured his repeated returns for Lancaster. He died intestate at his Inner Temple chambers 17 Dec. 1631.H. C. Fanshawe, Hist. Fanshawe Fam. 24, 25; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 194; Somerville, Duchy, i. 439; SP14/33; PCC 20 Woodhall; C142/482/60.