{{Short description|English politician}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Sir Thomas Grimes''' (also '''Crymes''', '''Grymes''' or '''Grahme'''; 20 February 1574 – 28 April 1644) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.<ref>{{cite book |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |date=2011|publisher=Douglas Richardson |isbn=978-1-4610-4520-5 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA6&dq=Thomas+Grimes |access-date=9 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
Grimes was the son of Thomas Grimes, citizen and haberdasher of London and of Peckham and his wife Jane Muschamp daughter and co-heir of Thomas Muschamp, of Peckham.<ref name=Blanch>[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/william-harnett-blanch/ye-parish-of-camerwell--a-brief-account-of-the-parish-of-camberwell--its-histo-nal/page-9-ye-parish-of-camerwell--a-brief-account-of-the-parish-of-camberwell--its-histo-nal.shtml William Harnett Blanch. ''Ye parish of Camerwell : a brief account of the parish of Camberwell : its history and antiquities'']</ref> He was knighted at Hanworth, Middlesex on 2 June 1603.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/n119/mode/2up Knights of England]</ref> He was J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey.<ref name=Blanch/> In 1614, he was elected member of parliament for Haslemere. He was re-elected MP for Haslemere in 1621. In 1624, he was elected MP for Surrey.<ref name=Willis>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5V09AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Browne+Willis%22 Browne Willis ''Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences'' 1750 pp. 176–239]</ref> Grimes married Margaret, daughter of Sir George More, of Loseley Park. Sir Thomas Grimes had three daughters: Mary, Margaret, and Jane, and three sons: George, Thomas, and Richard.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Benolt |first1=Thomas |last2=Cooke |first2=Robert |last3=Thompson |first3=Samuel |last4=Vincent |first4=Augustine |last5=Camden |first5=William |last6=Bannerman |first6=W. Bruce (William Bruce) |title=The Visitations of the County of Surrey|date=1899 |publisher=London : [Ye Wardour Press] |page=144 |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationsofcou43beno/page/144/mode/2up?q=grymes |access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref> He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir George Grimes.<ref name=Blanch/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Haslemere | before= Edward Fraunceys | before2= William Jackson | with= Sir William Browne | years=1614–1622 | after= Francis Carew | after2= Poynings More }} {{succession box | title=member of parliament for Surrey | before= Sir George More | before2= Sir Nicholas Carew | with= Sir Robert More | years=1624 | after= Sir George More | after2= Sir Francis Leigh }} {{s-end}}
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