Family and Education
b. c. 1607, 2nd s. of James Thurbarne (d.1627), counsellor at law, of New Romney, Kent and Gray’s Inn by Mary, da. of Giles Estcourt of Salisbury, Wilts. m. (1) 12 May 1635, aged 28, Ellen, wid. of John Jacob of Sandwich, 2s. 1da.; (2) 18 Nov. 1658, Bennet Forster, wid., s.p.W. Boys, Hist Sandwich, i. 351; Vis. Glos (Harl. Soc. xxi), 56; Canterbury Mar. Lics. ed. Cowper, ii. 985.
Offices Held
Jurat, Sandwich by 1642 – Nov. 1660, Dec. 1660–2, 1667 – 84, town clerk 1642 – 62, 1667 – 84, mayor 1665 – 66; warden of St. Thomas’s hosp. Sandwich 1658 – 83; member of county committee, Kent 1659; commr. for assessment, Kent Aug. 1660–1, 1665 – 80, Sandwich Aug. 1660–3, 1666 – 69, 1677–80.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Sandwich, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
THURBARNE, James (c.1607-88)
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Oxford 1644
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