Thomas Walsingham (* 1561; † 11 August 1630) was the third surviving son of Sir Thomas Walsingham and Dorothy Guildford. Edmund Walsingham, Thomas' grandfather, had been an uncle of Francis Walsingham.
Almost certainly he and Thomas Watson worked for Walsingham in the early 1980s when he was ambassador in Paris. After Walsingham’s death in April 1590, Watson wrote the elegy Meliboeus, which he dedicated to Thomas Walsingham and in which he mentioned their acquaintance in Paris.1
Scadbury Manor, about 20 km south-east of London, had been in the family since 1452 and was the birthplace of Francis Walsingham. Thomas, the son of Thomas and Audrey, sold the building due to financial difficulties in the 17th century. It changed hands several times before being demolished in the mid-18th century.
Thomas Walsigham married Audrey Shelton. (According to (Nicholl 2002), the marriage did not take place before 1597, whereas (Kuriyama 2002) assumes the marriage took place in the early 1590s). Their son Thomas was born in 1600. He later became the husband of Elizabeth Manwood, a granddaughter of Roger Manwood.
- Nicholl (2002)↩︎
