Background
Thynne was the son of Sir Thomas Thynne, and his wife Stuarta Balquanquill, daughter of Doctor Walter Balquanquill.
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Thomas Thynne
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He went by the nickname "Tom of Ten Thousand" due to his great wealth. His father was a younger son of Sir Thomas Thynne of Longleat, Wiltshire. On 15 November 1681 Thynne married the wealthy Lady Elizabeth Percy, only child of Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland.
He was shot while riding in his coach in Pall Mall, London, by three men, Christopher Vratz, John Stern and Charles George Borosky.
lieutenant was strongly suspected that they were acting on the orders of Königsmark and the four were soon arrested. Königsmark however was acquitted of the charge of being an accessory before the fact (due to the corruption of the jury according to diarist John Evelyn) but Vratz, Stern and Borosky were hanged on 10 March 1682.
Count Karl von Königsmark was the brother of Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck who disappeared under mysterious cirucumstances in the state of Hanover in Germany in 1694, possibly murdered by order of the future British monarch George I.
After Thynne"s death his widow, Lady Elizabeth, married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. Thynne"s remains were interred in a marble tomb in Westminster Abbey.
The tomb is decorated in part with a representation of the murder of Thynne in 1682.
A popular ballad summed up the episode in form of a mock epitaph:.
Membership
Cavalier Parliament; Exclusion Bill Parliament. Habeas Corpus Parliament.
