Thomas Hussey (Grantham MP)

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Thomas Hussey (died 25 March 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

Hussey was the son of Sir Edward Hussey, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Anton, daughter of George Anton of Lincoln.[https://books.google.com/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Sir+Edward+Hussey%22&pg=PA275 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies]{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Lincolnshire Pedigrees, edited by A.R. Maddison V 50 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming|url=https://archive.org/details/LincolnshirePedigreesV50/page/n47/mode/2up?q=Anton|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}

In November 1640, Hussey was elected Member of Parliament for Grantham in the Long Parliament.{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}} However he died early in the following year.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tye1pU2wlqcC&dq=%22Thomas+Hussey%22+Grantham+1641&pg=PA3 Maija Jansson Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament, House of Commons]

Hussey married Rhoda Chapman, daughter of Thomas Chapman, of London. His son Sir Thomas Hussey, 2nd Baronet inherited the baronetcy.[https://books.google.com/books?id=U0UkpOJzQmsC&dq=%22Thomas+Hussey%22+Grantham+baronet&pg=PA105 George L. Cherry The Convention Parliament, 1689: a biographical study of its members] His son William was an ambassador under William III.