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Sir Thomas Lucy (1583/86 – 8 December 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1640. ==Life== Lucy was the son of Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park and his wife Constance Kingsmill daughter of Sir Richard Kingsmill of High Clere, Hampshire.〔(John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain, Volume 3'' )〕 His grandfather Sir Thomas Lucy was an MP and is noted for prosecuting William Shakespeare. In 1614, Lucy was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. He held the seat through several elections until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Warwickshire in the Short Parliament. In November 1640 he was elected MP for Warwick in the Long Parliament but died in December. Lucy died after falling from his horse and was buried at St Leonard's Church, Charlecote.〔Article by Richard Cust.〕 It was said of him that "his tables were ever open to the learned and his gates never fast to the poor".〔 Lucy married Alice Spencer, daughter of Thomas Spencer of Claverden, Warwickshire.〔 Alice was known a an archetypal gentlewoman known for her charity and piety.〔Richard Cust, ‘Lucy , Alice, Lady Lucy (c.1594–1648)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (accessed 25 Nov 2015 )〕 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「Thomas Lucy (died 1640)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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