Thomas Knyvet
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Thomas Knyvet (1558-27 July, 1622 was the 2nd son of Sir Henry Knyvet of Charlton, Wiltshire and Anne Pickering, daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Westmoreland, Westmoreland. His sister Catherine Knyvet was married to Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk.
He attended Jesus College, Cambridge. He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I, and in 1592, he was made Master at Arms and Member of Parliament for Thetford in 1601. In 1603, James I gave him the Manor of Stanwell, Middlesex.
On 21 July 1597 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roland Hayward and widow of Richard Warren of Essex. He was knighted in either 1603/4. After foiling the gunpowder plot, he was appointed a Privy Councillor, Member of the Council to Queen Anne, and Warden of the Mint. He was given charge bof the education of Princess Mary. He sat in Parliament as Baron Knyvet of Escrick, Yorkshire in 1607.
There is an effigy of him and his wife in the chancel of Stanwell parish church.
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