Background
The eldest son of Robert Honywood and grandson of Mary Honywood.
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Thomas Honywood
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Career
He and head of a prominent Essex family, he was knighted in 1632. On the outbreak of the Civil War he declared for the parliamentary side, and was one of the Committee for Essex in 1648. In the same year, under the command of Thomas Fairfax, he led the Essex forces at the Siege of Colchester.
In 1649, he was one of those named in the commission to try the King, but did not serve on the court.
He also led a regiment at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Sir Thomas was elected to Parliament as member for Essex in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate, and in 1658 was raised to Cromwell"s new Upper House.
He retired from public life after the Restoration. She was the widow of John Manning, Merchant of London (d1635).
