Thomas Proby

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Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet (18 October 1632 – 22 April 1689) of Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1685.

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Proby was the son of Sir Heneage Proby (of Elton and Raans, Buckinghamshire) and his wife Ellen Allen, daughter of Edward Allen, of Finchley, Middlesex.[https://books.google.com/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Thomas+Proby%22+Baronet+Elton&pg=PA429 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies]

In 1660, Proby was elected Member of Parliament for Amersham in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Amersham in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679,[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/proby-thomas-1632-89 History of Parliament Online - Proby, Thomas] and he was created a baronet in 1662. In 1679 he was elected MP for Huntingdonshire and sat until 1685.

He carried out a number of improvements to Elton Hall.{{NHLE|num=1164802 |desc=ELTON HALL |accessdate=30 March 2015 }} Proby died at the age of 56.