# Thomas Windebank

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**Sir Thomas Windebank, 1st Baronet** (born *c.* 1612) was Member of Parliament (M.P.) for [Wootton Bassett](/source/Wootton_Bassett_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and supported the [Royalist](/source/Cavaliers) cause in the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War). He was [Clerk of the Signet](/source/Clerk_of_the_Signet) from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the [Interregnum](/source/Interregnum_(England))) from 1660 to 1674.

## Biography

Thomas Windebank born about 1612, the eldest son of Sir [Francis Windebank](/source/Francis_Windebank), (later Secretary of State to King Charles I).[1][2] He was intended to follow in his father's footsteps into the service of [the Crown](/source/The_Crown). He matriculated from [St. John's College, Oxford](/source/St._John's_College,_Oxford), on 13 November 1629, aged 17, but did not graduate.[1]

In 1631 his father secured for him the reversion of a clerkship of the signet, and soon afterwards, he entered the service of [Thomas Howard](/source/Thomas_Howard,_Earl_of_Arundel_and_Surrey) the [Earl Marshal](/source/Earl_Marshal). In 1635–1636 he was travelling in [Spain](/source/Spain) and [Italy](/source/Italy). By 1640 he was back in England and was M.P. for Wootton Basset in Wiltshire in the [Short Parliament](/source/Short_Parliament).[1][3] He took up his duties as [Clerk of the Signet](/source/Clerk_of_the_Signet) in 1641.[4]

He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War,[1] and was created a baronet on 25 November 1645.[5] He compounded on the Oxford articles.[6] After the [Restoration](/source/Restoration_(England)), Windebank was clerk to the signet again from 1660 to 1674.[4]

## Family

He was married and left a son Francis, on whose death in 1719 the baronetcy became extinct.[1][5]

## Notes

1. Pollard 1900, p. 165.

1. Williams 1836, p. 313.

1. Willis 1750, p. 237.

1. Sainty 1999.

1. Burke & Burke 1838, p. 573.

1. Pollard 1900, p. 165 cites Cal. *Comm. for Comp.* p. 1465.

## References

- Burke, John & Burke, Sir John Bernard (1838), "A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies", Scott, Webster, and Geary, p. [573](https://books.google.com/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA573)
- Sainty, J.C. (March 1999), ["Clerks of the Signet c.1539-1660 (Provisional list)"](http://www.history.ac.uk/office/signet.html), Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Williams, John (1836), "Ancient & modern Denbigh: a descriptive history", Williams, p. [313](https://books.google.com/books?id=-ywLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313)
- pp. 229–239.

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