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Henry Thynne (8 February 1674/75 – 20 December 1708) was an English gentleman and Tory Member of Parliament. Thynne was the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth (1640–1714), of Longleat, a substantial landowner in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, by his marriage to Lady Frances Finch, a daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=History of Parliament Trust )〕 He was christened on 16 February 1674/75 at Drayton Bassett.〔(Henry Thynne ) at thepeerage.com, accessed 20 November 2011〕〔Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition), vol. 1 (Burke's Peerage, 2003), p. 1291〕 Thynne was educated at home and was very interested in literature. In 1692 he visited the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.〔 As a young man, he taught French and Italian to his contemporary Elizabeth Singer (1674–1737), in whom Bishop Thomas Ken, then living at Longleat, had taken an interest when she was twelve.〔John Edward Jackson, 'The History of Longleat', in ''The Wiltshire archæological and natural history magazine'', vol. 3 (1857), (p. 306 )〕 In ''To the Painter of an Ill-Drawn Picture of Cleone, the Honorable Mrs Thynne'', a poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Thynne appears under the name of "Theanor",〔John Buxton, ''A Tradition of Poetry'' (London: Macmillan, 1967) p. 168〕〔Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, ''Poems'' (1903), of Anne Countess of Winchilsea 1903.djvu/561 p. 561 at Wikisource〕 while "Cleone" was his wife Grace, to whom Lady Winchilsea addressed several of her poems.〔George Justice, Nathan Tinker, ''Women's writing and the circulation of ideas'' (2002) (p. 168 )〕 At the election of 1695 Thynne stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Weobley.〔 He later sat as a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1701, then briefly for Tamworth before representing Weymouth and Melcombe Regis again until his death in 1708.〔 At Tamworth, he was returned unopposed with Thomas Guy (1644–1724), the speculator and founder of Guy's Hospital.〔Sir Samuel Wilks, George Thomas Bettany, ''A biographical history of Guy's Hospital'' (1892), p. 24: "To the sixth Parliament of William, December 30th, 1701— July 2nd, 1702, Tamworth returned the Hon. Henry Thynne (only son of Lord Weymouth) and Thomas Guy. This was "a popular election and no opposition". "〕 Guy was a Whig,〔''Collections for a history of Staffordshire'' (Staffordshire Record Society, 1920), p. 187: "Tamworth : Thomas Guy, Esq. (Whig)"〕 while Thynne was a Tory.〔 On 29 April 1695, Thynne married Grace Strode, the daughter and heiress of Sir George Strode and Grace FitzJames, who brought him a fortune of £20,000. They had two daughters, Frances Thynne, who married Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, and Mary Thynne (''ca''. 1702–1720), who married William Greville, 7th Baron Brooke (1695–1727).〔 His grandchildren included Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland.〔 Thynne became extremely fat. After he had died suddenly on 20 December 1708, the findings of a post mortem were reported in a letter to Edward Harley from his sister: On 3 January 1708/9 he was buried at Longbridge Deverill.〔 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Thynne (1675–1708)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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