BYNG, Thomas.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Available from Cambridge University Press

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Biography

This Member’s identity is unclear. The Byngs, a large Kentish family from Wrotham, were connected with various members of the Howard family, the patrons of Castle Rising.1 Two members of the family, Robert and his son George, sat in Elizabethan parliaments. Thomas may have been George’s younger brother by the first marriage of his father Robert, or he may have been George’s son.2 Alternatively, he could have been the son of Dr. Thomas Byng, dean of Arches, and the brother of Henry Byng*, later serjeant-at-law.3

As there were three ‘Mr. Bings’ in the Commons in 1614, nothing definite can be ascertained about this Member’s parliamentary activity.

Ref Volumes: 1604-1629

Author: Chris Kyle

Notes

  • 1. L.L. Peck, Northampton, 60.
  • 2. Soc. Gen. transcript, Wrotham par. reg.; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 27-8.
  • 3. Soc. Gen. transcript, Granchester par. reg.; Oxford DNB sub Dr. Thomas Byng.