James Thynne (politician, 1644)

James Thynne ( 1644 - March 15, 1709 ) was an English politician.

James Thynne came from the English Thynne family . He was the second son of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet of Caus Castle, and of Mary Coventry, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry and Elizabeth Aldersey. He was baptized on February 3, 1644. He studied at Oxford , where he received the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1677 .

From 1677 he served in London as administrator of the royal library until he resigned after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. His brother Thomas Thynne proposed him in the general election in 1690 as a candidate for Gloucestershire , but his election failed despite the support of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort against two Whigs candidates . In the general election in January 1701, he ran successfully as the Tories candidate for Cirencester . He remained inconspicuous in the House of Commons , but was known as an opponent of Britain's entry into the War of the Spanish Succession on the side of Austria . An illness prevented him from further political activity and a renewed candidacy in December 1701. He advocated the establishment of two schools in Buckland and Chipping Campden and was active in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , which he Sir Humphrey Mackworth met . This persuaded him to invest heavily in the Mine Adventurers' Company , which was declared bankrupt shortly after his death .

He was buried in his home in Buckland, Gloucestershire. He had remained unmarried. He bequeathed his movable property for religious purposes, his property fell to his nephew Thomas Thynne, a son of his brother Henry Frederick Thynne , and after his early death in 1710 to his posthumous son Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth .

Web links

• DW Hayton: THYNNE, James (1644-1709), of Buckland, Glos. (History of Parliament Online, Ref Volumes: 1690-1715)