Thomas Thynne (landowner)

Thomas Thynne (landowner)

Thomas Thynne (1647/8–12 February 1682) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament for Wiltshire. He went by the nickname "Tom of Ten Thousand" due to his great wealth. He was a friend of the Duke of Monmouth, a relationship referred to in John Dryden's satirical work "Absalom and Achitophel" where Thynne is described as "Issachar, his wealthy western friend".

Thynne was murdered in 1682 after the Swedish Count Karl Johann von Königsmark began to pursue his wife, Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.

Thynne was shot whilst riding a coach in Pall Mall in London by Königsmark and his three accomplices Christopher Vratz, John Stern and Charles George Borosky. The four were soon arrested; however Königsmark was acquitted of the murder (due to the corruption of the jury according to diarist John Evelyn) but Vratz, Stern and Borosky were hanged on 10 March 1682.

Thynne's remains were interred in a marble tomb in Westminster Abbey.

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