Sir Thomas Walton

Sir Thomas Walton (or Wauton or Waweton) (ca. 1370–ca. 1450) was an English MP and Speaker of the House of Commons.

He was born the son of John de Walton of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, who was a previous MP for Huntingdonshire.

Thomas first entered Parliament as MP for Huntingdonshire in January 1396 and was then re-elected in September 1396, October 1400, and September 1402. He may have sat for Bedfordshire in 1409 and 1411 (the returns for those years have been lost) but on 8 May 1413 he was recorded as MP for the county. On 3 Nov 1414 he was returned once again for his home constituency of Huntingdonshire.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire for 1415, and knighted in September 1418. On 18 Sep 1419 he was again elected to parliament for Bedfordshire and on 23 Nov 1420 and 24 Oct 1422 again elected for Huntingdonshire. In 1422 he served a second term as sheriff of Bedfordshire and was appointed chamberlain of North Wales. On 20 Mar 1424 he was once more elected for Bedfordshire and this time was elected Speaker of the House. He served a third and fourth term as sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1428 and 1432, serving in between in 1431 as Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire for the last time. In 1448 he was pardoned from any obligations to hold future office and died soon afterwards.

He had married Alana Berry of Wales with whom he had two sons and two daughters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Walton

WALTON or WAUTON, Sir THOMAS (1370?–1437?), speaker of the House of Commons, born probably about 1370, was son of John de Walton of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, who represented that county in the parliament of January 1393–1394, and was present at a great council in 1401 (Nicolas, Proc. P. C. i. 158; Visit. Bedfordshire, p. 198; Visit. Norfolk, p. 304; cf. Harl. MS. 381, f. 168, where his father's name is given as Thomas).

Sources

1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walton,_Thomas_(DNB00)_
2. The visitations of Bedfordshire: annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634 (Google eBook) William Harvey, Robert Cooke, George Owen, Sir Richard Saint-George, Frederick Augustus Page-Turner, College of Arms (Great Britain).  1884 - Bedfordshire (England) - 234 pages. Page 198

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jetthrock...

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Notes

From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/walton/291/

Looking for information to fill out sparse outline of the Waltons of Stepel? Essex? Walton, England. Line is as follows:

• 1. Simeon de Walton
• 2. Roger de Walton 1283-
• 3. William de Walton 1305-
• 4. John de Walton 1331-
• 5. Thomas de Walton 1328-1385+ Elizabeth Aspall 1330-
• 6. John de Walton 1395-
• 7. Thomas Walton 1370-1437+ Alma Berry 1372-
• 8. Richard Walton 1397-1463
• 9. William Walton 1423-+ Elizabeth Dunstroke 1425-
• 10. James Walton 1505-1561
• 11. William Walton 1537- + Margaret Dyes 1541-
• 12. Andrew Walton 1530- + Jane Clarke 1534-
• 13 William Walton 1556- + Ann Mays 1579-
• 14. Robert Walton 1579- + Margaret Fitzwilliams 1583-
• 15. William Walton 1601-1673 + Elizabeth Cooke 1605-1673
• 16. Elizabeth Walton 1629-1674 + Lot Conant 1624-1674. This Conant family is the Conant Family of Salem Massachusetts