Thomas Gewen (1585 – November 1660) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1660.
He was the grandson of Thomas and the son of Christopher Gewen of
Werrington. He was educated at
the Queen's College, Oxford and the
Inner Temple. He married twice; first to a daughter of Edward Cosworth, with whom he had a son. In July 1622, he married Mary, the daughter of Matthew Springham, with whom he had one son and two daughters.[1][2]
Thomas Gewen settled at Bradridge, in the parish of
Boyton in Cornwall and was a joint auditor for the
Duchy of Cornwall, until he was deprived of his position at the outbreak of the
Civil War for his support of the parliamentary cause.
^Sir Thomas Burton reports, in his parliamentary diary for 3 February 1657/58:
"Mr. Gewen was moving, when I came in, to the whole system of government; and concluded with this motion: That now we are a free Parliament, we would draw up a Bill to invest his Highness in the title and dignity of King, Providence having cast it upon him." see 'The Diary of Thomas Burton: 3 February 1657-8', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), pp. 424-441. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36879 Date accessed: 12 January 2011. >
^Cornwall Record Office Catalogue - Item Code: BLAUS/350 "Launceston Borough - Mayor: Thomas Bolithoe - Names of free tenants to free burgesses and censors. Election of mayor, in September, and other borough officers. 19 September 1646, a special meeting of mayor and aldermen whereat they removed Ambrose Mannaton for siding with
Sir Ralph Hopton and elected Thomas Gewen as Recorder in his place, and dealing with the history of the time."