Background
Thurbarne was the second son of James Thurbarne lawyer of New Romney, Kent and his wife Mary Estcourt, daughter of Giles Estcourt of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Thurbarne was the second son of James Thurbarne lawyer of New Romney, Kent and his wife Mary Estcourt, daughter of Giles Estcourt of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
He was a lawyer and became Jurat for Sandwich by 1642. He also became town clerk in 1642. He became warden of Saint Thomas’s hospital, Sandwich in 1658.
In 1659 he was re-elected Member of Parliament for Samdwich in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660 he was re-elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich for the Convention Parliament. In August 1660 he became commissioner for assessment for Kent and for Sandwich.
King Charles ordered his dismissal as jurat on 27 November 1660, but he was immediately re-elected by the corporation. He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.
In 1662 he was ejected as jurat and town clerk by the commissioners for corporations.
He was mayor of Sandwich in 1665 and was reinstated as town clerk and jurat in 1667. Thurbarne died at the age of 80 and was buried at South. Peter’s, Sandwich on 23 May 1688.
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In 1656, Thurbarne was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich in the Second Protectorate Parliament from which he was secluded. He was a member of the county committee for Kent in 1659.