Thomas Jones (died 1711)

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Thomas Jones (died 8 October 1711) was a Member of Parliament for East Grinstead, Sussex in 1685.{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231621/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm|archive-date=10 August 2009|title=House of Commons|publisher=Leigh Rayment|url-status=usurped|accessdate=2 August 2010}} A son of a judge, he was a nominee of Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset in the two-member constituency, and was opposed by the Tory John Conyers.Basil Duke Henning, The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1 (1983), p. 422. Conyers complained of the election to Parliament, in May 1685, but nothing was done with his petition.Wallace Henry Hills, The History of East Grinstead (1906), p. 42; https://archive.org/stream/historyofeastgri00hilliala#page/42/mode/2up

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