Thomas Wentworth

Thomas Wentworth may refer to:

  • Thomas Wentworth I, MP for Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), Lord Chamberlain of England
  • Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525–1584), his son, blamed for England's loss of Calais to France in 1558
  • Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford) (c. 1568–1628), English Member of Parliament and lawyer
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667), Royalist military leader during the English Civil War
  • Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1613–1665), his son, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), KG, diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Thomas Wentworth (British Army officer) (died 1747), English general officer

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